Library Cataloging
OAI
Here is a nice use of the Open Archives Initiative, Citebase. This searches arXiv, cogprints and Biomed Central. "Citebase allows researchers to search across free, full-text research literature eprint archives, with results ranked according to many criteria (e.g. by citation impact), and then to navigate that literature using citation links and analysis."
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Paratools
Old news, but new to me via an announcement on Perl4Lib, a new version of ParaTools is available.ParaTools is a set of Perl modules for parsing citations (the references at the end of papers). It's main library uses a template-matching technique to...
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Oai & Rss
my.OAI, a full-featured search engine to a selected list of metadata databases from the Open Archives Initiative project has added support for download search results in RSS format. Seen on Open Access News.myPubMed also has that ability....
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Oai
The latest issue of Library hi tech is devoted to the Open Archives Initiative. Some of the articles are:The making of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting by Carl Lagoze; Herbert Van de Sompel OAI and NASA's scientific and...
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Dublin Core
The master's paper, A Quantitative Analysis of Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) Usage in Data Providers Registered with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) by Jewel Ward is available.This research describes an empirical study of how the Dublin...
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Metadata Extraction
Parser::Citation is a Perl module for extracting reference metadata from scholarly eprint papers.Currently, Citation.pm attempts to parse the following metadata from references to other journal papers (it is not good at parsing metadata from references...
Library Cataloging