Library Cataloging
Ariadne
The new issue of Ariadne includes:
Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives
Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions.Building OAI-PMH Harvesters with Net::OAI::Harvester
Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.DSpace vs. ETD-db: Choosing software for E-theses
Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.
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Iwf Metadata Harvester
The IWF Metadata Harvester is a package for retrieving metadata from servers, writing it to databases, and representing it in human-readable form. It currently retrieves data from servers using two different sets of standards: The Open Archives Initiative...
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Iwf Metadata Harvester
Posted to Code4lib. I'd like to announce the publication of the IWF Metadata Harvester. This package reads data from servers, writes it to databases, implements various kinds of searches, and writes HTML files to display the results. It currently...
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Oai
ZOpenArchives, an OAI implementation for Zope, transforms Zope or Plone into an OAI Data Provider and Aggregator has been released. Written in Python, same as Zope.This product is an OAI implementation for the Zope server, it provides the following components...
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Professional Reading
The latest issue of Ariadne contains:ISBN-13: New Number on the Block Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book tradeThe Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace Richard...
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Oai
This one from Terry Reese, of MarcEdit fame:I thought someone might be interested in this. At OSU, we had a need to create an OAI harvester for ASP.NET so I created an OAI harvester in C# that works much like Ed Summer's OAI::Harvester perl module....
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