Re: OpenDAP and digital libararies

Hi Tennessee,

This is very interesting. Do you have the name (e-mail address) of a 
contact at TPAC who would know more about this? I was aware that they 
serve their data via OPeNDAP, but not that they had developed a 
crawler. Do you know if their crawler is capable of crawling beyond 
their local computers?

Peter

On Sep 29, 2005, at 2:28 AM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> An Australian group called TPAC (Tasmanian Partnership of Advanced
> Computing) has sponsored the development of a digital library portal
> which is capable of crawling over OpenDAP networks, extracting the
> metadata vis the DAS and building up a searchable digital library of 
> data.
>
> I found this out at the APAC conference, at which I presented a paper 
> on
> the capacities of OpenDAP for linking institutions and making a
> consistent interface between them.
>
> There are some strong synergies between the TPAC digital library
> software and what OpenDAP represents at a lower level. Hopefully, we
> will be setting up this software on a research box here at the Bureau,
> and I'll let you know if it lives up to expectations.
>
>
> Cheers,
> -Tennessee
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