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Harvesting and Resolution Methods for Building OAI-based Services

Harvesting and Resolution Methods for Building OAI-based Services. Jeffrey A. Young jyoung@oclc.org CERN OAI3 Workshop# 4 Geneva, Switzerland 14 February 2004. Introductions. Name Affiliation Plans Needs Technical experience. Review OAI-PMH Protocol. Identify ListSets

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Harvesting and Resolution Methods for Building OAI-based Services

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  1. Harvesting and Resolution Methodsfor Building OAI-based Services Jeffrey A. Youngjyoung@oclc.org CERN OAI3 Workshop# 4Geneva, Switzerland14 February 2004

  2. Introductions • Name • Affiliation • Plans • Needs • Technical experience

  3. Review OAI-PMH Protocol • Identify • ListSets • ListMetadataFormats • ListRecords • ListIdentifiers • GetRecord

  4. Find Repositories to Harvest • http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites.pl • http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/cgi-bin/Explorer/oai2.0/testoai • http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/ • Friends lists • Communities (e.g. www.ndltd.org)

  5. Exercise: Getting Started • What are your data sources? • How will you add value? • Who will design the system? • Who will create/operate the software? • Who will create/maintain the data? • Who will advocate for it politically? • Who will benefit? • Who will pay?

  6. Metadata • Metadata is data about data • Metadata formats: two extremes • Dublin Core • MARC • Metadata can be relative • Who created this document? • Who created the metadata about this document? • Keep in mind, though, that OAI works just as well for sharing XML content

  7. XML/DTD/XSD/XSL • XML - eXtensible Markup Language • DTD - Document Type Definition • XSD - XML Schema Definition • XSL - eXtensible Stylesheet Language

  8. eXtensible Markup Language • Meta-markup language • HTML – Hypertext markup language • XHTML – eXtensible hypertext markup language

  9. XML Overview • Well-formed XML • XML Namespaces • Valid XML • DTDs • XML Schemas • OAI Items vs. Records • Item identifiers • Multiple metadata record representations

  10. XML Namespaces • Ambiguous XML Elements • <wind>NNE</wind> • <wind>Clockwise</wind> • Prefixes help identify and differentiate elements • <weather:wind>SE</weather:wind> • <toy:wind>Widdershins</toy:wind> • But, prefixes are arbitrary and potentially ambiguous, so what we really need is a URI (ie. prefixes are a local shorthand for the URI) • <weather:wind xmlns:weather=“someURI”>NW</weather:wind>

  11. XML Schema Definition • Defines what an XML document contains • XHTML • oai_dc • MARC21 XML

  12. What is our “item”? • Work – a distinct intellectual or artistic creation • J.S. Bach’s The art of the fugue • Expression – the intellectual or artistic realization of a work • The composer’s score for organ • An arrangement for chamber orchestra by Anthony Lewis • Manifestation – The physical embodiment of an expression of a work • CD, printed score, multimedia kit, etc. • Item – A single exemplar of a manifestation

  13. Exercise: Data Definition • Design a metadata format for items in your project • List the elements you need • Consider the encoding rules • Consider using controlled vocabularies • Assign an XML namespace • Map a crosswalk to Dublin Core • Create a sample item with both formats • Consider assigning OAI sets • Report issues, problems, and concerns

  14. Exercise: A Simple Harvester • XOAIHarvester – a simple harvester written in XSLT • http://errol.oclc.org/oai:xmlregistry.oclc.org:xoai/xoaiharvester.xsl • The purpose of the Perl script is to manage incremental harvesting • Caveat! OAI is merely the first step. Once data is harvested, OAI provides absolutely no guidance for doing something useful with it.

  15. Concerns • Data quality • Duplicates • Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) • The appropriate copy problem • Persistence

  16. Repository Variables • MetadataPrefix • oai_dc – the lowest common denominator • Set • Hierarchical • Allows selective harvesting • Work best with community agreement • Client warrant

  17. Exercise: Select/Create Tools • http://www.oaforum.org/oaf_db/list_db/list_software.php • http://www.openarchives.org/tools/tools.html • http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/simeon/software/utf8conditioner/ • http://harvest.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/dc/index.html

  18. An Alternative Service Model • ERRoLs are URLs to content and services related to repositories in the OAI Registry at UIUC • http://errol.oclc.org/

  19. Discussion • Issues, Problems, Concerns?

  20. Music Services • Organizational issues • Cultural issues • Collection policies • Best practices • Consensus-building • Controlled vocabularies • http://alcme.oclc.org/gsafd/ • Do items represent digital and/or physical entities? • Authority control

  21. Repository Descriptors • Repository-level “description” elements • oai-identifier description – identifier layout • eprints description – content & policies • friends description – discover repositories • branding description – branding information • olac-archive description – archive info • Record-level “about” elements • Rights statements • Provenance statements

  22. XSLT Overview XML Document XSLT Processor XML Document XSLT Stylesheet

  23. Validate Repositories • http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html • http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/cgi-bin/Explorer/oai2.0/testoai • http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv

  24. Example Service Providers • ARC - A Cross Archive Search Service (experimental research service)http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ • Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (search service, German language user interface)http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/oaisearch/ • iCite (citation index)http://icite.sissa.it/ • NCSTRL—Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (search engine)http://www.ncstrl.org/ • my.OAI (value-added search interface to a selected list of metadata databases)http://www.myoai.com/ • Physnet (simple search interface to an experimental OAI harvester)http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/oai/query.php • ProPrint (printing-on-demand service, German and English language user interfaces offered)http://www.proprint-service.de/

  25. Resources • http://www.openarchives.org/ • http://www.oaforum.org/

  26. Everything you need to know • http://www.oaforum.org/otherfiles/oaf_d23_technical2.pdf

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