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Transition to RDF creates the heterogenity problem that we now have, which
is a zoo of sources offering index data for MPRESS: old harvest gatherers offering
SOIF, X-Harvest gatherers offering RDF and agents that export index data
in the Open Archives Protocoll (http://www.openarchives.org/). But this is unavoidable
as long as one accepts data coming up in the former formats what we
want to do in MPRESS.
We want to import this zoo of sources into HyREX [Gövert, 2002]. During
the CARMEN project a script (broker.pl) was developed that collects data from
harvest gatherers, X-Harvest gatherers and interfaces using the Open Archives
Protocoll. The data that are stored by this script have to be converted to XML
using for example soif2xml. Then the whole set of data is in XML format and
converted again using XSLT. This procedure results in a set of XML documents
that are valid against the DTD we are using to index the data with HyREX.
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