DiCit specification pages

DiCit as a specification for a distributed network of academic metadata. The specification lives at http://dicit.openlib.org. This is the page that you are reading now.

The specification uses http, https, rsync, RelaxNG and XML.

DiCit is distributed. Each node in the network is called a station. A list of stations is available at http://dicit.openlib.org/stations.html. This contains station data that is know to the central station. The URL resolves into a piece of valid XHTML 1.0, where each <a> element that is in the class “station”, will have the station URI for a station.

The station URI resolves into a piece of XML constrained by a RelaxNG specfication that is available at http://dicit.openlib.org/station.rng.xml. This is best looked at as a text file. This RelaxNG specification has a non-normative description at http://dicit.openlib.org/station.html.

All metadata formats used in the specification are centrally registered and documented here. For a format, the lowercase name of which is “foo”, the specification is at http://dicit.openlib.org/formats/foo.rng.xml. This the specification of AMF is at http://dicit.openlib.org/formats/amf.rng.xml.