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HaIRST: an embryonic harvested union catalogue for Scotland

HaIRST: an embryonic harvested union catalogue for Scotland. Gordon Dunsire Centre for Digital Library Research. HaIRST project. Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland Testbed Funded by JISC, Aug 2002 – Jul 2005 Strathclyde University Glasgow College Group John Wheatley College

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HaIRST: an embryonic harvested union catalogue for Scotland

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  1. HaIRST: an embryonic harvested union catalogue for Scotland Gordon Dunsire Centre for Digital Library Research

  2. HaIRST project • Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland Testbed • Funded by JISC, Aug 2002 – Jul 2005 • Strathclyde University • Glasgow College Group • John Wheatley College • Napier University • St Andrews University

  3. Institutional repository • Catalogue of online digital resources created by an organisation • Often includes the resources themselves (databank) • Original focus on HE institutions and research materials • e-prints, e-theses • Now much wider range • Learning and teaching materials • Reports, minutes, foi materials • House journals, image banks

  4. Unionisation • Cross-searching achieved by copying metadata from multiple repositories to create a union catalogue • Every metadata record is unique because resource is unique • Copying is done automatically and at regular intervals • Metadata “harvesting”

  5. Open access • Harvesting concept arose from the Open Access movement • High quality digital resources freely available online • Open Access Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) • Metadata schema based on Dublin Core (oai-dc)

  6. Testbed • Early experience of local repositories at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities (and elsewhere) • But narrow range of materials • Need to investigate metadata issues arising from • A wider range of resources • Local vs “global” requirements

  7. Current status • Operational metadata repository at St Andrews University • Experimental repositories for other project partners • Harvested union catalogue of all repository metadata • Available online (and harvestable itself) • And now harvesting Edinburgh and Glasgow repositories …

  8. Next • Z39.50 interface and incorporation in CAIRNS • And Scottish Distributed Digital Library mini-clump • Possible addition of other repositories • Investigating use of ‘static repository’ approach to exposing resources from (closed) digitisation projects

  9. Demonstration • http://speirserver.cdlr.strath.ac.uk:8088/arc/hairst_search.jsp

  10. Thank you! • HaIRST project website • http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ • HaIRST catalogue • http://speirserver.cdlr.strath.ac.uk:8088/arc/hairst_search.jsp • More about Open Archives Initiative at OAISIS • http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/oaisis/index.htm

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