Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>]

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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> > >
> > >
> > >      
> >    
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