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Open Archive Forum

Open Archive Forum. Rachel Heery UKOLN, University of Bath r.heery@ukoln.ac.uk www.ukoln.ac.uk.

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Open Archive Forum

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  1. Open Archive Forum Rachel Heery UKOLN, University of Bath r.heery@ukoln.ac.uk www.ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.

  2. Contents • Preliminaries : project background • Promises : project objectives • Practicalities : how? why? Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  3. Open Archives Forum • European Union IST accompanying measure • Humboldt University, Berlin • IEI-CNR, Pisa • UKOLN, University of Bath • Under contract negotiation, start date autumn 2001 Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  4. Interoperability Low cost low barrier vision of interoperability Change of emphasis from distributed to centralised searching Use of XML v. RDF Shared metadata schemas Wide-ranging implementation of Dublin Core Requirement for registering schemas Potential for metadata sharing Why are UKOLN involved? Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  5. Related work… using OAI in RDN HUMBUL EEVL PSIgate BIOME SOSIG • share records using OAI • build central database of all RDN records • basis for central search, browse interface and other services (e.g. Web index) RDN ResourceFinder Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  6. EU motivation • Release value of invisible Web • Low cost interoperability • Articulate European perspective • Ensure European organisations ready to exploit opportunities • Optimise effort within cluster of projects … raising awareness, ready for action Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  7. Project objectives • Provide focus for dissemination • Encourage collaborative development of software • Support European liaison with OAI • Exchange information • Co-ordinate validation of OAI protocols ….. build community of interest Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  8. Cultural heritage institutions Research organisations Public library sector Community services Publishers Commercial sector Education sector As service providers E-print services Aggregators Services that add value As data providers Established metadata repositories New data providers Who will participate ? Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  9. Explore business models • Data providers co-operating to form network of service providers • Data providers will be service providers • Metadata provided ‘free’ to service providers • Provision of added value services (document delivery, services for targeted audiences) Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  10. Evaluate OAI protocol • Compare with existing technologies • HARVEST, Z39.50 • Is simple Dublin Core sufficiently rich? • What types of organisations could best exploit OA(I)… which domains? • Benefits to users?? Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  11. Plans • Workshops • series of four workshops • informed by domain specific reports • OAI EU Information Source • inventory of software tools • interoperability issues register • current implementations database • Please register interest….. Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

  12. URLs • Andy Powell. Use of OAI by subject gateways<www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/www10/> • OAI meetings at ECDL2001 Workshop: Experimental OAI Based Digital Library Systems Sep 8 <http://www.cs.odu.edu/OaiEcdlWorkshop> Tutorial : Digital Library Interoperability via Metadata Harvesting: (Sep. 4 afternoon) • OAI Open Meeting, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue4/oai/> Open archive meeting, IME, July 2001

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