RVOT: A Tool For Making Collections OAI-PMH Compliant

mber of on-line journals and scientific l libraries (DL) exist today, however, is a lack of interoperability between these ies. Researchers have been looking at this and one of the major efforts to address ical interoperability among distributed es is the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). bjective of OAI is to develop a lowr, lightweight framework to facilitate the very of content in distributed archives. In aper, we describe a tool, Rapid Visual Tool (RVOT), which can help small izations in making their collections OAI(OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) liant in a quick and convenient way. can be used to graphically construct an PMH repository from a collection of It includes a metadata translation tool, a eight HTTP server, and an OAI-PMH st handler. The records in the original tion can be in any of the supported ts including RFC1807, MARC subset, OSATI subset formats. RVOT helps to a mapping visually from native format blin Core (DC) format, once the mapping ined, native metadata files are converted format metadata files, and the repository es OAI-PMH compliant. RVOT is selfined, easy to install, and can be extended port new metadata formats.