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Using OAI: innovations in the sharing of information
Timothy W. ColeThe tradition of union catalogs and similar broad‐based, comprehensive bibliographic utilities and tools is one of long standing in the discipline of librarianship. As we move…
The making of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Carl Lagoze, Herbert Van de SompelThe authors, who jointly serve as the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) executive, reflect on the three‐year history of the OAI. Three years of technical work recently culminated in…
Available and useful: OAI at the Library of Congress
Caroline R. ArmsThe Library of Congress (LC) was an early adopter of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The protocol allows LC to make digitized historical collections available for…
OAI and NASA’s scientific and technical information
Michael L. Nelson, Terry L. Harrison, JoAnne RockerThe Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI‐PMH) is an evolving protocol and philosophy regarding interoperability for digital libraries (DLs). Previously…
E‐prints and the Open Archives Initiative
Simeon WarnerThe Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was created as a practical way to promote interoperability between e‐print repositories. Although the scope of the OAI has been broadened…
Harvesting cultural heritage metadata using the OAI Protocol
Sarah L. Shreeves, Joanne S. Kaczmarek, Timothy W. ColeIn July of 2001, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign undertook a project to test the efficacy of using the Open…
OAIster: a “no dead ends” OAI service provider
Kat HagedornOAIster, at the University of Michigan, University Libraries, Digital Library Production Service (DLPS), is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant‐funded project designed to test…
The Metascholar Initiative: AmericanSouth.Org and MetaArchive.Org
Martin HalbertThe MetaScholar Initiative is a collaborative endeavor to explore the feasibility and utility of scholarly portal services developed in conjunction with Open Archives Initiative…
Reengineering archival access through the OAI protocols
Christopher J. PromThe Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting presents one promising method by which metadata regarding archives and manuscripts can be shared and made more…
Building an Open Language Archives Community on the OAI foundation
Gary Simons, Steven BirdThe Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources. The…
Leveraging OAI harvesting to disseminate theses
Hussein Suleman, Edward A. FoxNDLTD, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, supports and encourages the production and archiving of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). While many…
A case study in metadata harvesting: the NSDL
William Y. Arms, Naomi Dushay, Dave Fulker, Carl LagozeThis paper describes the use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting in the NSF’s National Science Digital Library (NSDL). The protocol is used both as a…
XML to the desktop
Judith WustemanNow that XML is five years old, is it time for e‐libraries to start exploiting its full potential by delivering it to the end user rather than converting it to HTML first? What…
Library facility planning – the consultant’s view: a chat with Andrea Michaels
Morell D. BooneDeciding if and when to add an external library building design consultant to a library facilities planning team is often crucial to the successful completion of building…
Copyright in a networked world: digital distance education
Michael SeadleInternet‐based distance education has become big business for both universities and the commercial world. The new TEACH Act was intended to make US copyright law friendlier toward…
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- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho