Library Cataloging
Exciting news from the OAI. Now it is very easy to make a small number of records available to the OAI community.
- Oai @ Oclc
Some good news from OCLC about their OAI database, now you can submit your own records for harvesting, just use the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.Repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other cultural heritage and research institutions...
- In Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool
The Indiana University Digital Library Program has released the IN Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool.This tool has been designed to assist libraries, archives, museums, and individual collectors describe their sheet music collections in a robust and...
- Text Encoding Initiative
News from the TEI folks:We are delighted to announce a beta release of teiPublisher, an extensible, modular and configurable xml-based repository. teiPublisher was developed to bridge the gap between having a collection of structured documents that are...
- Oai-pmh
Infrae has released extensions for Python, Zope and the Silva CMS for harvesting web-based repositories exposed using the OAI-PMH standard (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). In addition they are announcing an extension for the...
- Dp9
Not new, but something I've not mentioned before is DP9.DP9 is a gateway service that enables indexing of an OAI data provider by an Internet search engine. DP9 does this by providing a persistent URL for repository records, and converting this to...
Library Cataloging
OAI
Exciting news from the OAI. Now it is very easy to make a small number of records available to the OAI community.
Beta Release of OAI Static Repository SpecificationIthaca, NY & Los Alamos NM - The Open Archives Initiative announces the beta release of the Specification for an OAI Static Repository and an OAI Static Repository Gateway. These beta releases follow a period of alpha testing during which implementations were written to the specification and functional details addressed. Public comment is invited during this beta period. Comments should be addressed to the OAI-implementers list. We expect the beta period to last for approximately two months from this release.A Static Repository provides a simple approach for exposing relatively static and small collections of metadata records through the OAI-PMH. The Static Repository approach is targeted at organizations that:Have metadata collections ranging in size between 1 and 5000 records;Can make static content available through a network-accessible Web server;Need a technically simpler implementation strategy compared to acting as an OAI-PMH Repository, which requires processing OAI-PMH requests;
A Static Repository is an XML file that is made accessible at a persistent HTTP URL. The XML file contains metadata records and repository information.A Static Repository becomes accessible via OAI-PMH through the intermediation of one Static Repository Gateway. A Static Repository Gateway uses the metadata records and repository information, provided via XML in the Static Repository, to process the six OAI-PMH requests for access to that information. Because a Static Repository Gateway maps a unique Static Repository base URL to each such Static Repository, harvesters can access a Static Repository in exactly the same manner as they access any other OAI-PMH Repository.This release is accompanied by the beta release of an XML Schema for Gateway Descriptions, a container that may be used to describe OAI-PMH Gateways, and in particular Static Repository Gateways.
- Oai @ Oclc
Some good news from OCLC about their OAI database, now you can submit your own records for harvesting, just use the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.Repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other cultural heritage and research institutions...
- In Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool
The Indiana University Digital Library Program has released the IN Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool.This tool has been designed to assist libraries, archives, museums, and individual collectors describe their sheet music collections in a robust and...
- Text Encoding Initiative
News from the TEI folks:We are delighted to announce a beta release of teiPublisher, an extensible, modular and configurable xml-based repository. teiPublisher was developed to bridge the gap between having a collection of structured documents that are...
- Oai-pmh
Infrae has released extensions for Python, Zope and the Silva CMS for harvesting web-based repositories exposed using the OAI-PMH standard (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). In addition they are announcing an extension for the...
- Dp9
Not new, but something I've not mentioned before is DP9.DP9 is a gateway service that enables indexing of an OAI data provider by an Internet search engine. DP9 does this by providing a persistent URL for repository records, and converting this to...