a little birdie pointed this out to me:
D-Lib Magazine
December 2004
Volume 10 Number 12
ISSN 1082-9873
Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework
Herbert Van de Sompel
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
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Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University, Computer Science Department
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Carl Lagoze
Cornell University, Computing and Information Science
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Simeon Warner
Cornell University, Computing and Information Science
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Abstract
Motivated by preservation and resource discovery, we examine how
digital resources, and not just metadata about resources, can be
harvested using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI-PMH). We review and critique existing techniques for
identifying and gathering digital resources using metadata harvested
through the OAI-PMH. We introduce an alternative solution that builds
on the introduction of complex object formats that provide a more
accurate way to describe digital resources. We argue that the use of
complex object formats as OAI-PMH metadata formats results in a
reliable and attractive approach for incremental harvesting of
resources using the OAI-PMH.
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Happy weekend!
Regards,
Jewel
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Jewel Ward, Ph.D. Student
The School of Information and Library Science
Univ of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill
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