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Available and Useful: OAI at the Library of Congress.
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Arms, Caroline R. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
How should scarce resources available to produce metadata be deployed to support discovery in different contexts? How might metadata harvesting be exploited to support new interfaces and enhanced navigation among related resources in digital libraries? This article starts a conversation between metadata providers and service builders by describing…
Descriptors: Archives, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries, Information Services
Building an Open Language Archives Community on the OAI Foundation.
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Simons, Gary; Bird, Steven – Library Hi Tech, 2003
The Dublin Core (DC) Element Set and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol have provided a solid foundation for the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) framework. More precision is needed in community-specific aspects of resource description than is offered by DC, and many of the potential participants in OLAC do not have the technical…
Descriptors: Archives, Data Collection, Information Services, Information Sources
E-prints and the Open Archives Initiative.
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Warner, Simeon – Library Hi Tech, 2003
Presents a brief survey of Open Archives Initiative (OAI) e-print repositories, and of services using metadata harvested from e-print repositories using the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). Discusses several situations where metadata harvesting may be used to further improve the utility of e-print archives as a component of the…
Descriptors: Archives, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries, Harvesting
Harvesting Cultural Heritage Metadata Using the OAI Protocol.
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Shreeves, Sarah L.; Kaczmarek, Joanne S.; Cole, Timothy W. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undertook a project to test the efficacy of using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting to construct a search and discovery service focused on information resources in the domain of cultural heritage. Provides an overview of the Illinois project, with quantitative data about…
Descriptors: Archives, Culture, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries
Reengineering Archival Access through the OAI Protocols.
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Prom, Christopher J. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting program presents a method by which metadata regarding archives and manuscripts can be shared and made more interoperable with metadata from other sources. Outlines a method for exposing hierarchical metadata from encoded archival description (EAD) files and assesses some…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Harvesting, Information Services
Leveraging OAI Harvesting To Disseminate Theses.
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Suleman, Hussein; Fox, Edward A. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), supports the production and archiving of electronic theses and dissertations. While working with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) to develop and test the metadata harvesting standard, the authors set up and actively maintain a central NDLTD metadata collection and multiple user…
Descriptors: Archives, Doctoral Dissertations, Electronic Libraries, Harvesting
Providing Access to Unique Information Sources: A Reusable Platform for Publishing Bibliographic Databases on the Web.
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Jantz, Ronald C. – Library Hi Tech, 2000
Discussion of digital library projects at Rutgers University focuses on publishing bibliographic databases on the Web to provide access to information sources not likely to be published elsewhere. Describes the reusable technology platform concept, bibliographic platform architecture, metadata approach, data entry, and managing the process.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Electronic Libraries