OLAC Repositories Standard: Call for review

[Baden Hughes]

> For our purposes we need to show potential depositors a catalogue of
> the metadata. If we point them to the OLAC site there is currently no
> facility to simply browse the contents of a particular repository.
> For example you can't search for its identifier here
> http://www.language-archives.org/tools/search.php4? and get all
> records from that repository (at least I can't, searching for
> paradisec, or paradisec.org.au, or pdsc). I understand that this
> facility will be built sometime by the LinguistList people and look
> forward to that happening.

Hi Nick -

You could try using an OLAC VISER query, like this (may wrap):

http://www.language-archives.org/viser?elements=0&sql=OaiIdentifier+like+'oai:paradisec.org.au:%25'&title=Resources+Available+Through+Paradisec

(You will need either Internet Explorer or Opera to view the results of
the XML output)

The VISER Documentation for constructing such queries is at
http://www.language-archives.org/viser - if you like contact me offline
to talk about how this could be leveraged to give you what you're after

Regards

Baden