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University of Michigan’s OAIster Progress Report

This progress report discusses the University of Michigan's OAIster project, which aims to make metadata accessible to the public. The report highlights the project's goals, tools used and developed, user feedback, and future plans. The OAIster search service allows users to find over 850,000 records from 108 institutions, covering a wide range of subjects and formats. The report also includes testimonials from users who have found the service to be valuable.

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University of Michigan’s OAIster Progress Report

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  1. University of Michigan’s OAIster Progress Report Kat Hagedorn OAIster/Metadata Harvesting Librarian University of Michigan, DLPS October 7, 2002

  2. OAIster Overview • One-year Mellon grant project (one of 7) • Grants for testing feasibility of using OAI to make metadata accessible to the public • Digital Library Production Service at UM began work in December 2001 • Publicized as OAIster in February 2002 • Launched as search service in June 2002

  3. Project Highlights • Any audience • Any subject matter • Any format • Freely accessible (more on this later…) • No dead ends (again, more on this later…) • One-stop shopping …retrieving the “hidden web”

  4. Tools We Used • UIUC Harvester • Two editions developed; we used Java edition • Running since March of this year • Worked collaboratively to iron out kinks

  5. Tools We Developed • UM DLPS runs DLXS middleware • Using middleware as a base, developed searchable interface to harvested records • Also developed a Java-based transformation tool to: • Collect harvested records into large files • Filter out records that don't have digital objects associated with them • Normalize the DC element Resource Type • Add institution information • Count records and provide quality of data feedback • Convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1 • Use XSLT to transform DC records into DLXS records

  6. System Design XSL Stylesheets (per source type) XSLT Transformation Tool UIUC Harvester OAI-enabled DC Records Record Storage BibClass Records Non-OAI-enabled DC Records XPAT Search Engine

  7. End Result • Search service for end-users allowing them to find 858,067 records from 108 institutions (as of October 1, 2002) • Example institutions we harvest from: • Online Archive of California - manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in institutions across California • arXiv Eprint Archive - math and physics pre- and post-prints • Sammelpunkt, Elektronisch Archivierte Theorie - archive of philosophical publications • British Women Romantic Poets Project - collection of poems written by British women between 1789 and 1832

  8. User Feedback • 2 surveys, one lengthy and highly publicized before launch, one short and publicized intra-UM after launch • Users want electronic journals and online reference materials • Users want a comprehensive place to look for online materials • 2 sets of face-to-face and remote testing • Users don’t need short and long record formats • Users need clearly defined and labeled AND/OR searching options, but found the results clear and easy to understand • Users want to sort by title, date, institution, resource format…you name it! • Users use OAIster for academic, trustworthy, authentic materials instead of search engines like Google

  9. Testimonials • “Splendid service, and I will promote it widely!” • “An excellent resource—I have already made good use of it twice this morning!” • “I think it's a great service—and a wonderful site to use to illustrate the power of the OAI effort.”

  10. Statistics

  11. Progress and Future Plans • Improvements to service • Better Boolean and sorting options for search • Better search results access for large results sets • Research questions • Relevancy ranking • “Best” answers • Next year • Browsing capability • Saving/emailing/downloading records • More normalizing of data

  12. Contact Info • Kat Hagedorn • UM Digital Library Production Service • khage@umich.edu • http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/ • For technical info: Mike Burek, mburek@umich.edu

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