[Metadatalibrarians] Metadatalibrarians Digest, Vol 50, Issue 13

[Winona Salesky]

Hi Dana,
I'm the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Vermont our
entire digital collections web application (backend data entry and website)
is run on eXist (a native XML database) and Solr with a combination of XSL
and XQuery and XForms. We use Dublin Core, MODS, METS, TEI and EAD, but
could easily add additional metadata types into the mix. Here is a link to
the site http://cdi.uvm.edu/ and the finding aids
http://cdi.uvm.edu/findingaids/.

Although you can run xqueries on a file system I would recommend installing
eXist [http://exist.sourceforge.net/] to experiment with, one of the sample
datasets is a series of MODS records. You can also try the sandbox [
http://demo.exist-db.org/sandbox/sandbox.xql] on the eXist website to
experiment with xquery. I would also be more than happy to share data and
code with you to help you get started with library data and xquery. I keep
meaning to pack up a simplified version of the CDI website for people to use
as a sample database, so this might be a good time for me to do that. Just
let me know.
-Winona

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Dana Pearson <dbpearsonmlis at gmail.com>wrote:

> >I use xquery extensively, as well as a native XML database (eXist).
> >-Winona
> Hi Winona,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  My interest comes from using Stylus Studio XML IDE.
>
> SS makes it easy to use WSDL and SOAP.
>
> It seems that REST and JSON are very popular among developers in the
> library
> sphere.  But I recall reading somewhere (metadatalibrarians list?) that the
> European Library may include WSDL/SOAP as an alternative method for
> harvesters.
>
> I recall (regarding an earlier message in response to the original post)
> there
> was an interest expressed by European developers in creating a repository
> of
>
> XSL transforms for sharing.
>
> I wanted to try it for myself however I haven't found much to experiment
> with.
> SS features a search or browse of UDDI registries but I've not found
> XMLMARC,
> DC, METS or any of the other metadata types I've been studying.  I have
> done
> a little weather and stock price info collection with XQuery within SS.
>
> How are you using eXist and XQuery?  Are you offering any service thay I
> might
> experiment with?
>
> regards,
> dana
>
> Dana Pearson
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