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Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Timothy W. Cole, Muriel Foulonneau
Book Code: LU2806
ISBN: 1-59158-280-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-280-9
224 pages
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Publication: 6/30/2007
List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects: Reviews:
  • [A]n impressively substantial work on the central mechanism of scholarly communication. It abounds with extensive insights and information, applicable to institutional archives, discipline-based aggregators and other new services.
    —Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research     June 2008
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.
Table of 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
LC Card Number: 2007009006
LCC Class: 2666
Dewey Class: 025
PDF Catalogs:
LU Academic Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU Textbook Catalog Fall 2007.pdf
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