Hi Joe,

I'm interested in that same issue.  I've been trying to research if there
are standardized ways to serialize an ORE ResourceMap with all of its linked
resources into a single container for transport, but I haven't found
anything yet.  I did notice that the BagIt RFC [1] is a closer match to this
use case as it explicitly deals with serialization and transport in section
8.  But BagIt doesn't have the web resource orientation that ORE has.

If you get suggestions offlist on how to do this with ORE, could you send a
summary?

Thanks,
Matt

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-01

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Joe Hourcle
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Most of the examples I've seen of OAI-ORE seem to assume that you're
> ultimately interested in only one object within the resource map --
> effectively, it's content negotiation.
>
> Has anyone ever played with using ORE to point at an aggregation, with the
> expectation that the user will be interested in all parts, and automatically
> download them?
>
> ...
>
> Let me give a concrete example:
>
>        A user searches for some data ... we find (x) number of records
>        that match their criteria, and they then weed the list down to 10
>        files of interest.
>
>        We then save this request as a Resource Map, as part of an OAIS
>        "order".  I then want to be able to hand this off to a browser /
>        downloader / whatever to try to obtain the individual files.
>
> Currently, I have something that can take the request, and create a tarball
> on the fly, but we have the unfortunate situation when some of the data is
> near-line and/or has to be regenerated -- I'm trying to find a good way to
> effectively fork the request into multiple smaller request, some of which I
> can service now, and some for which I can return an HTTP 503 status (service
> unavailable) w/ a retry-after header.
>
> ...
>
> Has anyone ever tried doing something like this?  Should I even be looking
> at ORE, or is there something that better fits with what I'm trying to do?
>
> Thanks for any advice / insight you can give
>
> -Joe
>
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> Joe Hourcle
> Programmer/Analyst
> Solar Data Analysis Center
>