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  • From: "Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>
  • To: Wesley Nitsckie <wnitsckie AT uwc.ac.za>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] API to Internet Archive?
  • Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:55:05 -0500

I haven't used the OAI interface; my understanding was that it allowed you to get information on items that were already in the Archive, but not upload new items. I know that Ourmedia.org is using it to get a feed of items that are in their collection at IA. How have you used it? Any docs?

Nathan

Wesley Nitsckie wrote:

Hi There,
Has anyone considered using OAI? I have used this before and it works
well

Wesley


Tim Olsen <tolsen718 AT gmail.com> 10/10/05 10:41PM >>>

Hi Nathan,

So the Direct Contribution Interface still involves uploading the
metadata xml files, right?

btw, how did you find those links? Google can only find the link for
the Advanced Contribution interface, and Google found it linked from a
forum post from last year.

thanks for your help! It's really appreciated!

-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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