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Mimsy XG OAI-PHM Data Provider Available for Beta Testing:

The OAI-PMH Data Provider for Mimsy XG is a web based service, designed to allow dissemination of your data from Mimsy XG to external harvesting services. Once the OIA-PHM Data Provider is installed, the content and the provider in unison will frequently be referred to as a Repository. In order to access and utilize the data, you will need a third party OAI-PMH Data Harvester. Harvesters retrieve data from your provider and store the content in an external database for use either on individual websites or as aggregated data sets from other institutions. This data can be used to power services like search engines.

The OAI-PMH Data Provider for Mimsy XG is still considered to be beta quality software. While we believe it to be fully functional we cannot guarantee that no faults will be found. The only meta data format supported at time of writing is Dublin Core. If you would like to utilize the OAI-PMH provider please send email to support@willo.com. Participation in the beta program may be reliant upon Remote Desktop access being available to the server hosting the service.

Further information onthe Open Archives Initiative and the OAI-PMH protocol is available on the web and can be found at http://www.openarchives.org.

Optical Illusions? Ghosts Spotted At Optical Museum In London
From 24hourmusuem.org.uk: Staff at one of London’s smaller museums, the British Optical Association Museum in Craven Street, are on the look out for psychic investigators after a series of ghostly encounters.

The apparitions appeared in a museum gallery and curator’s office during the week of Monday March 13 2006, whilst staff and decorators were involved in a revamp and reorganisation of the museum's displays. (more...)

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