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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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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 |
Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol |
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries |
Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project |
Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives |
Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
Introducing UnAPI |
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
IT for Me: Getting Personal in South Yorkshire Public Libraries |
Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project which aims to provide personalised access to online resources in South Yorkshire's public libraries. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses |
Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework |
Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework. |
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Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm |
Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2004, issue39, news and events |
News and Events |
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July 2004, issue40, news and events |
News and Events |
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October 2008, issue57, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2002, issue30, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2003, issue36, news and events |
OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation |
Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities. |
October 2008, issue57, 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 |
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 |
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 |
Open Repositories 2008 |
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Open Repositories 2009 |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery |
Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Projects Into Services: The UK Experience |
Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework |
Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH |
Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
Serving Services in Web 2.0 |
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
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 |
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 |
Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers |
R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
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 |
SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit |
Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit. |
January 2008, issue54, 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 |
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository |
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. |
July 2004, issue40, 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 |
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 DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands |
Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
