Open Archive Forum

Rachel HeeryUKOLN, University of Bath

r.heery@ukoln.ac.uk

www.ukoln.ac.uk

UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.

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Contents

• Preliminaries : project background

• Promises : project objectives

• Practicalities : how? why?

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Open Archives Forum

• European Union IST accompanying measure

• Humboldt University, Berlin• IEI-CNR, Pisa• UKOLN, University of Bath

• Under contract negotiation, start date autumn 2001

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Why are UKOLN involved?

Interoperability

• Low cost low barrier vision of interoperability

• Change of emphasis from distributed to centralised searching

• Use of XML v. RDF

Shared metadata schemas

• Wide-ranging implementation of Dublin Core

• Requirement for registering schemas

• Potential for metadata sharing

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Related work… using OAI in RDN

• share records using OAI• build central database of all

RDN records• basis for central search, browse

interface and other services (e.g. Web index)RDN

ResourceFinder

EEVLBIOME

HUMBUL PSIgateSOSIG

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EU motivation

• Release value of invisible Web• Low cost interoperability

• Articulate European perspective• Ensure European organisations ready to

exploit opportunities• Optimise effort within cluster of projects

… raising awareness, ready for action

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Project objectives

• Provide focus for dissemination• Encourage collaborative development of

software• Support European liaison with OAI• Exchange information• Co-ordinate validation of OAI protocols

….. build community of interest

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Who will participate ?

• Cultural heritage institutions

• Research organisations• Public library sector• Community services• Publishers• Commercial sector• Education sector

As service providers• E-print services• Aggregators• Services that add

value

As data providers• Established metadata

repositories• New data providers

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Explore business models

• Data providers co-operating to form network of service providers

• Data providers will be service providers

• Metadata provided ‘free’ to service providers

• Provision of added value services (document delivery, services for targeted audiences)

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Evaluate OAI protocol

• Compare with existing technologies• HARVEST, Z39.50

• Is simple Dublin Core sufficiently rich?

• What types of organisations could best exploit OA(I)… which domains?

• Benefits to users??

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Plans

• Workshops• series of four workshops• informed by domain specific reports

• OAI EU Information Source• inventory of software tools• interoperability issues register• current implementations database

• Please register interest…..

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URLs

• Andy Powell. Use of OAI by subject gateways<www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/www10/>

• OAI meetings at ECDL2001 Workshop: Experimental OAI Based Digital Library

Systems Sep 8 <http://www.cs.odu.edu/OaiEcdlWorkshop>

Tutorial : Digital Library Interoperability via Metadata Harvesting: (Sep. 4 afternoon)

• OAI Open Meeting, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue4/oai/>