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First, apologies if this message comes twice; I've been having some problems posting to the list from my work address. I've been using the OpenContent indexes for a while now, but I'd really love to get some of them updated, particularly the Open Content Alliance and Internet Archive indexes. I've been thinking about this since IA got copies of the Million Book project content, and this week after Cornell deposited 70,000 or so public domain books in IA. I'd also like to add indexes for IA's Moving Images and Audio collections. I do have a bit of money to update collections this year, and it would probably be cheaper for me to update these collections through OpenContent than to figure out how to add the Open Library API to my federated search tool (which is soon to be PazPar2). Working directly with IA is another option, though we've been trying to work with them on searching our Archive-IT content via SRU with little success (so far). I've seen the announcement from UNC that they have an OCA API similar to the Google Books API, and maybe they would be open to adding an SRU interface to their harvest, as well. I'm just fishing for ideas for now. Anybody have any others? If the OpenContent materials are desired by others in addition to me, I'd be happy to take that into consideration. -- Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative Texas State Library and Archives Commission 512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax) [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]