Library Cataloging
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 handles data from two kinds of interface: OAI (Open Archives Initiative), which provides XML, and Z39.50, using the Pica format.The IWF Metadata Harvester is Free Software. The program code is published under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and the documentation under those of the GNU Free Documentation License. It is available from this FTP server. I am currently looking into the possibility of having the package hosted on a website for software developers.The IWF Metadata Harvester has been developed on a system running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and using Visual Studio, Visual C++ .NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. However, I have tried to make it as portable as possible under the circumstances by avoiding the ATL and MFC types, classes, etc., as much as I could. However, it has not been possible to do without them completely. More recent code uses them less. I hope that it will be possible to use the files of SQL code with free database packages without too many alterations. I plan to port the package to GNU/Linux myself at the earliest opportunity.I have used Donald Knuth and Silvio Levy's CWEB package for the C++ code, so that pretty-printed versions of the programs are included in the package. This directory also contains the manual, which has been written using the Texinfo package. It is available in the following formats:
DVI, PostScript, PDF, and HTML.Because the IWF Metadata Harvester is Free Software, libraries, archives, or any other providers of metadata could make it available to users with no purchase, registration, special license arrangements, or (subject to local laws) liability.The IWF Metadata Harvester is a work-in-progress. I would be very interested to know whether any libraries, archives, other institutions, businesses, or private persons would find it useful.Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Laurence Finston
IWF Wissen und Medien gGmbH
Nonnenstieg 72
37075 Goettingen
Germany
Metadata
- Open Harvester Systems
The Public Knowledge Project has a new version of the Open Harvester Systems, a free metadata indexing tool.This is a major rewrite of numerous parts of the Harvester code, including metadata storage and indexing. It increases indexing flexibility to...
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
Library Cataloging
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 handles data from two kinds of interface: OAI (Open Archives Initiative), which provides XML, and Z39.50, using the Pica format.The IWF Metadata Harvester is Free Software. The program code is published under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and the documentation under those of the GNU Free Documentation License. It is available from this FTP server. I am currently looking into the possibility of having the package hosted on a website for software developers.The IWF Metadata Harvester has been developed on a system running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and using Visual Studio, Visual C++ .NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. However, I have tried to make it as portable as possible under the circumstances by avoiding the ATL and MFC types, classes, etc., as much as I could. However, it has not been possible to do without them completely. More recent code uses them less. I hope that it will be possible to use the files of SQL code with free database packages without too many alterations. I plan to port the package to GNU/Linux myself at the earliest opportunity.I have used Donald Knuth and Silvio Levy's CWEB package for the C++ code, so that pretty-printed versions of the programs are included in the package. This directory also contains the manual, which has been written using the Texinfo package. It is available in the following formats:
DVI, PostScript, PDF, and HTML.Because the IWF Metadata Harvester is Free Software, libraries, archives, or any other providers of metadata could make it available to users with no purchase, registration, special license arrangements, or (subject to local laws) liability.The IWF Metadata Harvester is a work-in-progress. I would be very interested to know whether any libraries, archives, other institutions, businesses, or private persons would find it useful.Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Laurence Finston
IWF Wissen und Medien gGmbH
Nonnenstieg 72
37075 Goettingen
Germany
Metadata
- Open Harvester Systems
The Public Knowledge Project has a new version of the Open Harvester Systems, a free metadata indexing tool.This is a major rewrite of numerous parts of the Harvester code, including metadata storage and indexing. It increases indexing flexibility to...
- Marc Tool, File_marc
Here is a new MARC tool, File_MARC, announced at Code4Lib.This package enables you to read existing MARC records from a file, string, or (using the YAZ extension), from a Z39.50 source. You can also use this package to create new MARC records.This package...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...