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The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an attempt to build a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives (institutional repositories) containing digital content (digital libraries). It allows people (Service Providers) to harvest metadata (from Data Providers). This metadata is used to provide "value-added services", often by combining different data sets. Initially, the initiative has been involved in the development of a technological framework and interoperability standards specifically for enhancing access to e-print archives, in order to increase the availability of scholarly communication; OAI is, therefore, closely related to the Open access publishing movement. However, the developed technology and standards are applicable in a much broader domain than scholarly publishing alone. The OAI technical infrastructure, specified in the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), currently in version 2.0, defines a mechanism for data providers to expose their metadata. This protocol mandates that individual archives map their metadata to the Dublin Core, a simple and common metadata set for this purpose. In other words, the relation of OAI compatibility to Dublin Core is that OAI standards allow a common way to provide content, and part of those standards is that the content has metadata that describes the items in Dublin Core format. OAI has recently begun work on the Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) project which defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Open Archives Initiative)
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After eLib |
Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library |
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research |
Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services. |
June 2001, issue28, regular column |
The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies |
Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme. |
June 2001, issue28, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library |
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29. |
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Subject Portals |
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions |
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Managing Digital Video Content |
Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access? |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30. |
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Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge |
Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Building ResourceFinder |
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them? |
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2002, issue30, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 31: An E-prints Revolution? |
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 31. |
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Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive |
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
The Open Archives Forum |
Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
The JISC Information Environment and Web Services |
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
The AIM25 Project |
Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution? |
Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK |
by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Open Archive Forum Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives |
Ariadne reports on the Open Archives Forum's First Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives. Pisa, 13-14 May 2002. CNR, Pisa. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment |
Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential |
Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh |
October 2002, issue33, event report |
Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH |
David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities |
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Exposing Information Resources for E-learning |
Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) |
William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage |
Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35. |
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ePrints UK: Developing a National E-prints Archive |
Ruth Martin describes the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical issues that must also be addressed if the project is to deliver a national e-prints service |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats? |
Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
DELOS CEE Event: Current Trends in Digitisation in Central and Eastern Europe |
Philip Hunter reports on this meeting held in snowbound Torun, Poland, 3-4 February 2003. |
April 2003, issue35, event report |
Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape |
Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning |
Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment |
Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop |
William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2003, issue36, news and events |
