Full Description
Online scholarly publishing is revolutionizing scholarly communication, and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is among those protocols leading the way in the transformation process. OAI enables access to Web-accessible material by harvesting (or collecting) the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives. Through a series of case studies, Cole and Foulonneau guide the reader through the process of conceiving, implementing and maintaining an OAI-compliant repository. Its applicability to both institutional archives and discipline based aggregators are covered, with equal attention paid to the technical and organizational aspects of creating and maintaining such repositories.
Contents
Preface Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Definition and Origins of OAI-PMH Chapter 2: Underlying Technologies and the Technical Development of OAI-PMH Chapter 3: Context for OAI-PMH: ePrints, Institutional Repositories and Open Access Part II: Protocol Implementation Chapter 4: Technical Details of the Protocol Chapter 5: Implementing an OAI Data Provider Part III: Shareable Metadata: Creating and Using Chapter 6: Creating Metadata to Share Chapter 7: Post-Harvest Metadata Normalization and Augmentation Chapter 8: Using Aggregated Metadata to Build Digital Library Services Chapter 9: Concluding Thoughts Index
