Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

July 2004

Publication Title

D-Lib Magazine

Volume

10

Issue Number

7/8

DOI

10.1045/july2004-coleman

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Abstract

Federated, distributed, and broadcast searches on the Internet depend on an underlying common metadata framework by which the information resources to be searched are organized. The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is designed to facilitate searches across OAI-compliant databases. Software such as Arc allow service providers to offer federated searching of multiple, OAI-compliant resources. The majority of web-accessible information resources, however, are not OAI-compliant. This article describes a process whereby readily available open source tools and customized scripts were developed for integrating metadata from non-OAI compliant repositories for a federated search. The work described is being carried out as part of the development of the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST), an Eprints repository.

Comments

This article originally appeared in D-Lib Magazine, 10, 7/8, 2004. ©2004 Corporation for National Research Initiatives . This work can also be found online at this link http://dx.doi/org/10.1045/july2004-coleman
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