Would it be a legal OpenURL to use any of those in an OpenURL? They aren't approved for OpenURL use, right? But if I have to do something non-standard with OpenURL, might as well use a non-OpenURL standard, sure. In general, the lack of easy extensibility of OpenURL is a flaw that hopefully we will learn from in subsequent standards. Jonathan Ross Singer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >> Hmm, I could send a DC KEV OpenURL (ie info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dc ; there >> is no format for an XML DC? Kind of odd), and use the "type" element. >> > > http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:oai_dc > > Other possibilities here would be: > > http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:MARC21 > > and > > http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:mods > > The latter is in trial use, but it would be odd for it not to be > approved at some point in the not too distant future. > > -Ross. > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu