Library Cataloging
A Standards-based Solution for the Accurate Transfer of Digital Assets by Jeroen Bekaert and Herbert Van de Sompel appears in the latest issue of D-Lib Magazine
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- Institutional Repositories
aDORe: a modular, standards-based Digital Object Repository by Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeroen Bekaert, Xiaoming Liu, Luda Balakireva, and Thorsten Schwander. Draft of Submission to Oxford University Press Computer Journal. This paper describes the aDORe...
- Metadata Interoperability
SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the W3C, HP, MIT Libraries, and MIT CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate are often...
- Authority Information
The latest issue of D-Lib Magazine (Nov. 2003) v. 9, no. 11 has the article New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information The LEAF Project by Max Kaiser, Hans-Jorg Lieder, Kurt Majcen and Heribert Vallant.This article presents an overview of the...
- Oai
A beta version of a Perl Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting library has been uploaded to CPAN as Net::OAI::Harvester.Net::OAI::Harvester is a Perl extension for easily querying OAI-PMH repositories. OAI-PMH is the Open Archives...
- Metadata
An article in D-Lib magazine which may be of interest, Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' by Paul Shabajee."Large multimedia database systems have great potential for educational use. Their assets can often be used to support...
Library Cataloging
Transfer of Digital Assets
A Standards-based Solution for the Accurate Transfer of Digital Assets by Jeroen Bekaert and Herbert Van de Sompel appears in the latest issue of D-Lib Magazine
This article describes results of a collaboration between the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the American Physical Society (APS) aimed at designing and implementing a robust solution for the recurrent transfer of digital assets from the APS collection to LANL. In this solution, various recent standards are combined to obtain an asset transfer framework that should be attractive as a means to optimize content transfer in environments beyond the specific APS/LANL project. The proposed solution uses an XML-based complex object format (the MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration Language) for the application-neutral representation of compound digital assets of all sorts. It uses a pull-oriented HTTP-based protocol (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that allows incrementally collecting new and updated assets, represented as XML documents, from a producing archive. It builds on an XML-specific technique (W3C XML Signatures) to provide guarantees regarding authenticity and accuracy of the transferred assets.OAI
XML
- Institutional Repositories
aDORe: a modular, standards-based Digital Object Repository by Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeroen Bekaert, Xiaoming Liu, Luda Balakireva, and Thorsten Schwander. Draft of Submission to Oxford University Press Computer Journal. This paper describes the aDORe...
- Metadata Interoperability
SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the W3C, HP, MIT Libraries, and MIT CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate are often...
- Authority Information
The latest issue of D-Lib Magazine (Nov. 2003) v. 9, no. 11 has the article New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information The LEAF Project by Max Kaiser, Hans-Jorg Lieder, Kurt Majcen and Heribert Vallant.This article presents an overview of the...
- Oai
A beta version of a Perl Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting library has been uploaded to CPAN as Net::OAI::Harvester.Net::OAI::Harvester is a Perl extension for easily querying OAI-PMH repositories. OAI-PMH is the Open Archives...
- Metadata
An article in D-Lib magazine which may be of interest, Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' by Paul Shabajee."Large multimedia database systems have great potential for educational use. Their assets can often be used to support...