Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

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Timothy W. Cole, Muriel Foulonneau

ISBN: 1-59158-280-6

ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-280-9

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224 pages

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Publication: 6/30/2007

List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)

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Media Type: Paperback

Trim Size: 7 x 10

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Series Title: Third Millennium Cataloging

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[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 Resear 6/1/2008

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

About the Author: Timothy W. Cole is Mathematics Librarian and Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Muriel Foulonneau is Visiting project coordinator for the CIC-OAI metadata portal at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

LCC Class: 25

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