This is the first COinS-PMH-compliant blog in the world
You may have encountered the COinS-PMH idea in Dan Chudnov’s presentation at Access last week. This blog now contains COinS-PMH links; if you don’t have a COinS-PMH client (i.e. if you’re not Dan Chudnov), view source and search for Z3988 to see them. These links allow a suitable client to retrieve simple Dublin Core records for every posting using the OAI-PMH protocol. You can see one thing they’re good for in a screenshot of the view from Dan’s Firefox extension, and read some more discussion. As clients emerge and develop, this will be a mechanism for providing good metadata to any external service, with no more overhead than is required to run an OAI server (which everybody does, right?). I’ll package this as a Wordpress plugin shortly.
Any news on the plugin? You've had my interest piqued for a while. I'll trade my plugin for yours...
[...] Oliver Brown introduced me to microformats a while ago, the Ryan Eby got excited about them, then COinS-PMH showed how useful they could be for libraries, but I still haven't done anything with them myself (other than beg Peter Binkley to release his COinS-PMH WordPress Plugin). [...]
[...] Since becoming the first COinS-PMH (now unAPI)-compliant blog in the world, I've been meaning to flesh the plugin out a bit before releasing it; but I haven't had time. So here's the Wordpress Simple OAI plugin. To install it: unzip it into the wp-content/plugins directory (so you get a directory called oai there). Then, add this code snippet to post.php and single.php in your current theme, under the posting title: [...]