Correction to candidate OLAC Repositories standard

Gary Simons gary_simons at SIL.ORG
Tue Jul 29 04:24:27 UTC 2008


Dear implementers,

We've had our first instance of a problem being found by the testing during
the current Call for Implementation.  It has to do with the "email"
attribute of the new <participant> element in the <olac-archive> description
of the Identify response.

The documentation in the OLAC Repositories standard said that the value must
be a mailto: URI.  However, it also required that one of the participant
emails matches the value of <adminEmail> (which is part of the OAI
standard), and that value is just the email address, not a mailto: URI. 
Therefore the OLAC Repositories standard (and the olac-archives.xsd schema)
have been corrected to specify a plain email address for the "email" attribute.

We are anticipating a series of minor changes like this and do not want to
create a new document release for every such change.  Therefore, we are not
updating the Candidate version that is posted on the site, but will be
updating a pending new version that is stored in the SVN repository of our
development site at SourceForge. The URL for this new version (and all
subsequent revisions during this testing phase) is:

   http://olac.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/olac/web/OLAC/repositories-new.html

The link to "OLAC Repositories" in the Call for Implementation on the
project wiki site has been updated to this very latest version:

   http://olac.wiki.sourceforge.net/Call_for_1.1

Please report any other problems you find to this list so that we can get
them fixed.

-Gary



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