From hjohnson at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU Tue Jan 8 19:18:25 2008 From: hjohnson at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU (Heidi A. Johnson) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:18:25 -0600 Subject: FAQ for Implementers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I think this FAQ is excellent. The only thing I would note is that the answer to "2. How do I decide what to treat as an individual record?" should point to the granularity guidelines. so that people are encouraged to think at the collection level. Heidi > ------------------- > > Draft list of questions for OLAC Implementers' FAQ > > 1. How do I implement an OLAC metadata repository? > 2. How do I decide what to treat as an individual record? > 3. Where can I find good examples of sample metadata records? > > Implementing a static repository > > 4. Where can I find sample code for generating a static repository from a > database? > 5. How would I create and maintain a static repository by hand? > 6. How do I test whether my repository is valid? > 7. Where do I put my repository when it is ready to publish? > 8. How do I register it with OLAC? > 9. What do I do when I want to update the information in my repository? > > Implementing a dynamic repository > > 10. Where can I find sample code for implementing a dynamic repository? > 11. How do resumption tokens work? > 12. How do I test my repository to make sure it works? > 13. Why aren't my changes being harvested? From hjohnson at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU Tue Jan 8 19:18:25 2008 From: hjohnson at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU (Heidi A. Johnson) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:18:25 -0600 Subject: FAQ for Implementers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I think this FAQ is excellent. The only thing I would note is that the answer to "2. How do I decide what to treat as an individual record?" should point to the granularity guidelines. so that people are encouraged to think at the collection level. Heidi > ------------------- > > Draft list of questions for OLAC Implementers' FAQ > > 1. How do I implement an OLAC metadata repository? > 2. How do I decide what to treat as an individual record? > 3. Where can I find good examples of sample metadata records? > > Implementing a static repository > > 4. Where can I find sample code for generating a static repository from a > database? > 5. How would I create and maintain a static repository by hand? > 6. How do I test whether my repository is valid? > 7. Where do I put my repository when it is ready to publish? > 8. How do I register it with OLAC? > 9. What do I do when I want to update the information in my repository? > > Implementing a dynamic repository > > 10. Where can I find sample code for implementing a dynamic repository? > 11. How do resumption tokens work? > 12. How do I test my repository to make sure it works? > 13. Why aren't my changes being harvested?