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Peer reviewedHagedorn, Kat – Library Hi Tech, 2003
Describes the development of the OAIster system (Open Archives Initiative, University of Michigan, Digital Library Production Service) to harvest, store, transform digital object metadata into Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS) Bibliographic Class format, build indexes and make the metadata searchable through an interface using the XPAT…
Descriptors: Archives, Electronic Libraries, Harvesting, Information Services
Peer reviewedArms, 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
Peer reviewedLagoze Carl; Van de Sompel, Herbert – Library Hi Tech, 2003
Explores factors in the history of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) that have contributed to the positive response of the digital library and information community toward version 2 of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Factors include focus on a defined problem statement, an operational model in which strong leadership is balanced with…
Descriptors: Archives, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries, Harvesting
Peer reviewedArms, William Y.; Dushay, Naomi; Fulker, Dave; Lagoze, Carl – Library Hi Tech, 2003
Describes the use of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Science Digital Library (NSDL). Describes the implementation experience and early practical tests. The overall conclusion is optimism that the OAI will be a successful part of the NSDL. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Archives, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries, Harvesting
Peer reviewedNelson, Michael L.; Rocker, JoAnne; Harrison, Terry L. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
Details NASA's (National Aeronautics & Space Administration (USA)) involvement in defining and testing the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and experience with adapting existing NASA distributed searching DLs (digital libraries) to use the OAI-PMH and metadata harvesting. Discusses some new digital…
Descriptors: Archives, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries, Harvesting
Peer reviewedWarner, 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
Peer reviewedChang, May – Library Hi Tech, 2000
Describes the development of electronic finding aids for archives at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign that used XML (extensible markup language) and EAD (encoded archival description) to enable more flexible information management and retrieval than using MARC or a relational database management system. EAD template is appended.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Database Management Systems, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewedShreeves, 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
Peer reviewedSuleman, 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
