Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework

Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework

Motivated by preservation and resource discovery, we examine how digital resources, and not just metadata about resources, can be harvested using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). We review and critique existing techniques for identifying and gathering digital resources using metadata harvested through the OAI-PMH. We introduce an alternative solution that...

Metadata Harvesting with R and OAI-PMH

The Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/) develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. One key project is the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH, http: //www.openarchives.org/pmh/) which provides “a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability” for archives (institutiona...

Providing an OAI-PMH interface to the Storage Resource Broker

Applying SOAP to OAI-PMH

The Web Services paradigm for distributed computing promises to provide a breakthrough in interoperability by defining standardised mechanisms for inter-process communication. The SOAP standard, in particular, is widely discussed but not as widely adopted by standards bodies. The OAI is one such organisation that has been criticised for not adopting SOAP. Since the OAI-PMH is driven by semantic...

Assessing Open Archive OAI-PMH implementations

The number of works made freely accessible on the Web by institutions joined to Open Archive Initiatives such as libraries, research institutions, scientific and cultural archives, is constantly growing. Until now some international agreements among key players of Open Access approach have been established but the low level of standardization and the lack of a digital resource and repository ce...