OAI-PMH

OAI Verbs and arguments from http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm

Examples of use:

http://cnx.org/content/OAI?verb=Identify

We support both DublinCore and IMS metadata formats:

http://cnx.org/content/OAI?verb=ListMetadataFormats

http://cnx.org/content/OAI?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2005-09-25T00:00:00Z

http://cnx.org/content/OAI?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:cnx.org:m12391

http://cnx.org/content/OAI?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ims1_2_1&identifier=oai:cnx.org:m12391

OAI-PMH Extension: SearchRecords verb

http://cnx.org/content/OAI?verb=SearchRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&query:list=digital&b_start:int=10&b_size=10

Required Arguments:

metadataPrefix

one of 'oai_dc' or 'ims1_2_1'

query:list ( or multiples)

query:list=digital

query=digital&query=signal i.e. once for each search term

query:list=digital%20signal i.e. equivalent to "digital signal"

Optional Arguments:

b_start:int

offset into records (0 based)

b_size:int

number records returned (default 10) Magic value: -1 means whole resultset

sorton

field to sort on (defaults to weight)

valid values: 'weight', 'popularity', 'views', 'language', 'revised', 'title', 'portal_type'

weights.<fieldname>:int:record

weighting of fields to search

example: weights.author:int:record=10

(limits search to author field only)

weights.abstract:int:record=1&weights.title:int:record=10

(limits search to abstract and title, w/ a title match worth 10 times an abstract match)

valid field names: fulltext, abstract, subject, keyword, author, translator, editor, maintainer, licensor, institution, exact_title, title, language, containedIn, parentAuthor, containedAuthor, objectid

OpenSearch

Info found at: http://opensearch.a9.com/

Examples of use:

http://cnx.org/content/opensearchdescription/

http://cnx.org/content/opensearch?words=spectrum%20analyzer

Since OpenSearch subsumes RSS, a bookmark of an opensearch search against the Connexions repository amounts to an RSS feed of results for that search, returned in rank order.