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OAI Software
The OCKHAM initiative today released version 0.5.3 of its Harvest-to-Query (H2Q) software. This is the first widely-publicized release of H2Q. H2Q is an end-to-end solution for providing standard querying capabilities (such as Z39.50) for OAI-PMH available metadata collections.
Currently, H2Q has the following major features:
It is as easy to install as your stereo system (with all of its components)It is able to harvest metadata from any OAI-PMH available collection which provides its records in Dublin CoreProvides Z39.50 querying to harvested collections
Once H2Q achieves its 1.0 status, it will have the following major features:
It will be as easy to install as your toasterIt will be able to harvest metadata from any OAI-PMH available
collectionIt will provide Z39.50 and SRU/W querying to harvested
collectionsIt will allow harvesting and indexing of any XML-based metadata
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Capturing Government Documents
Managing Web Harvested Content: Results from the EPA Harvesting Pilot Project describes the results of a crawl of the EPA site by the GPO. They have questions about thier use of PURLs, keeping local copies of the harvested items and bib level considered...
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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...
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Metadata
The Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) has released version 4 of their MetaSuite product family for managing Dublin Core and similar metadata. Products include:HotMeta - a web-enabled metadata repository and query engine, and associated metadata...
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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...
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Open Archives Initiative
On behalf of the Institute of Physics, I'm pleased to announce our recent implementation of the Open Archives Initiative technical framework for our Electronic Journals service.As you may know, the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) 'develops and...
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