Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Price: $45.00
ISBN13: 9781591582809
ISBN10: 1591582806
Book code: LU2806
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Paperback | 224 pages
Publication Date: 06/30/2007
Series: Third Millennium Cataloging

DESCRIPTION

Online scholarly publishing is revolutionizing scholarly communication, and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is among those protocols leading the way in the transformation process. OAI enables access to Web-accessible material by harvesting (or collecting) the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives. Through a series of case studies, Cole and Foulonneau guide the reader through the process of conceiving, implementing and maintaining an OAI-compliant repository. Its applicability to both institutional archives and discipline based aggregators are covered, with equal attention paid to the technical and organizational aspects of creating and maintaining such repositories.

Series of case studies that guide the reader through the process of conceiving, implementing and maintaining an Open Archives Initiative compliant repository.

CONTENTS

Preface

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Definition and Origins of OAI-PMH

Chapter 2: Underlying Technologies and the Technical Development of OAI-PMH

Chapter 3: Context for OAI-PMH: ePrints, Institutional Repositories and Open Access

Part II: Protocol Implementation

Chapter 4: Technical Details of the Protocol

Chapter 5: Implementing an OAI Data Provider

Part III: Shareable Metadata: Creating and Using

Chapter 6: Creating Metadata to Share

Chapter 7: Post-Harvest Metadata Normalization and Augmentation

Chapter 8: Using Aggregated Metadata to Build Digital Library Services

Chapter 9: Concluding Thoughts

Index