discuss: Metadata (OMF) out there?
Subject:
Re: Metadata (OMF) out there?
From:
Paul Jones ####@####.####
Date:
20 Feb 2004 01:32:57 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402192031300.25038-100000@tribal.metalab.unc.edu>
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/metadata/ is the raw metadata in xml
format as described by the OMF DTD. I believe that that is what lampadas
used and what scrollkeeper uses.
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
+On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:08:28PM -0500, Paul Jones wrote:
+> http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/ has it all. entry templates, definitions,
+> DTD, searchable database, etc.
+
+That's actually how I came to http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/metadata
+
+Is there any "raw" data for own processing available? I could find only
+the search forms which doesn't help me much.
+
+I'm maintaining the LDP HOWTO package for Debian (doc-linux)
+and I'm searching for a good source of metadata to ease this task.
+Having omf files available for redistribution would even better, as one
+could then benefit from indexing tools like scrollkeeper. I think the
+lampadas.org OMF data were used by Debian in this way in the past, but
+that was before my involvement.
+
+Gruesse,
+
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