[cc-devel] API to Internet Archive?
Tim Olsen
tolsen718 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 15:17:38 EDT 2005
Hi Nathan,
The Advanced Contribution page says to use <licenseurl> to specify a
license url. I noticed, however, you use <license> to specify a
license url in the _meta.xml file, and in the _files.xml you use
<license> to specify the whole license claim ( [date] [holder]
Licensed to the public under bla bla. verify at [license url]) for
each file.
I'm guessing that regardless of what the Advanced Contribution page
says, your way will become the de-facto standard as they are pushing
the ccPublisher.
should I just follow what you're doing?
thanks,
Tim
On 10/10/05, Nathan R. Yergler <nathan at yergler.net> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I saw your earlier email (not sure if you or the Archive forwarded it to
> me), but completely spaced out replying. Mea culpa.
>
> ccPublisher originally used the Advanced Contribution interface from
> IA. The interface is documented at
> http://www.archive.org/help/contrib-advanced.php. It involves uploading
> the files and metadata to IA and then polling a URI to start the import
> process. The latest release of ccPublisher (and last few releases of
> Ourmedia Publisher) all use the new Direct Contribution interface, which
> reduces the delay between when an item is uploaded and when it is
> available on the site. The Direct Contribution interface is documented
> at http://www.archive.org/help/contrib-direct.php.
>
> ccPublisher abstracts it's Archive.org functionality into the PyArchive
> module, in CVS at
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cctools/pyarchive/pyarchive/. In
> particular submission.py contains our wrappers for the contribution
> interfaces. If I recall correctly, CVS HEAD is still the old-style
> interface, and the ccp8_1_0_x branch has the new DC interface.
>
> I'd be happy to help you with any naggling details or questions you have.
>
> Nathan R. Yergler
> Software Engineer
> Creative Commons
>
> Tim Olsen wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >My coworkers and I are adding to LimeWire the ability to upload
> >CC-licensed files to the Internet Archive. I noticed ccPublisher has
> >this ability. Does anyone know of a published API for interfacing to
> >the Internet Archive?
> >
> >I've tried asking this on the Internet Archive discuss list
> >(archivists-talk at yahoogroups.com), but haven't received a response
> >yet.
> >
> >thanks,
> >Tim
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> >
> >
>
>
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