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Using the Open Archives Initiative protocol for metadata harvesting /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cole, Timothy W.
Other Authors: Foulonneau, Muriel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Series:Third millennium cataloging.
Subjects:
Metadata harvesting.
Open Archives Initiative.
Table of Contents:
  • Definition and origins of OAI-PMH
  • Underlying technologies and the technical development of OAI-PMH
  • Context for OAI-PMH : eprints, institutional repositories, and open access
  • Technical details of the protocol
  • Implementing an OAI data provider
  • Creating metadata to share
  • Post-harvest metadata normalization & augmentation
  • Using aggregated metadata to build digital library services
  • Concluding thoughts.