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An Update from the OAI

December 1, 2004

Herbert Van de Sompel
Technical Staff Member, Research Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Carl Lagoze
Senior Research Associate, Information Science Program
Director of Technology, National Science Digital Library Program
Cornell University

Simeon Warner
Research Associate
Cornell University

Michael Lloyd Nelson
Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University

This project briefing will outline the ongoing efforts and future plans of the Open Archives Initiative. Topics that will be covered include:

• OAI-Rights: An international Technical Committee was formed, charged with specifying how rights expressions can be conveyed in the OAI-PMH Framework. The first deliverable of the Committee is a specification pertaining to conveying rights about metadata. An overview of this specification will be presented. A future effort will look into conveying rights pertaining to resources about which OAI-PMH repositories expose metadata.

• Harvesting content using the OAI-PMH: Use-cases are emerging in which an interoperable approach for harvesting content (not only metadata) has become essential. These include the mirroring of content-repositories for preservation purposes and the creation of services based on the content itself. An insight will be given as to how this interoperability requirement can be addressed within the boundaries of the OAI-PMH. Also, an overview will be given of the issues that need to be addressed in order for the proposed solution to be deployable as a platform for interoperability.

• mod_oai: The mod_oai project has set out to bring the power of selective/incremental harvesting, as provided by the OAI-PMH, to off-the-shelf Apache Web servers. Anticipated benefits include an optimization of Web crawling activities with respect to both performance and coverage. An overview and demonstration of the proposed solution and its benefits will be presented.

PowerPoint Presentation
Session Handout (PDF)

http://www.openarchives.org

Herbert Van de Sompel, et al. “Resource Harvesting within the
OAI-PMH Framework,” D-Lib Magazine, 10:12, Dec., 2004.
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/december2004-vandesompel)

Implementation Guidelines for the Open
Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting:
Conveying rights expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework
Protocol Version 2.0 of 2002-06-14
(http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm)

mod_oai – Getting OAI-PMH for free
(http://www.modoai.org)

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An Update from the OAI: Discussion Session

December 1, 2004

Herbert Van de Sompel
Technical Staff Member, Research Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Carl Lagoze
Senior Research Associate, Information Science Program
Director of Technology, National Science Digital Library Program
Cornell University

Simeon Warner
Research Associate
Cornell University

Michael Lloyd Nelson
Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University

In this session, participants and the presenters of the OAI Update session will exchange ideas related to future directions of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). The goals for the discussion session are:

• To solicit feedback on topics addressed in the OAI Update session (especially the proposed use of the OAI-PMH to transfer content between systems, and the OAI-rights work)

• To discuss OAI-related efforts, including the DLF OAI Best Practices effort and NSDL Validation work

• To help shape the agenda for future OAI efforts.

See also An Update from the OAI
Project Briefing page

http://www.openarchives.org/

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UTOPIA: The University of Texas Portal and Institutional Repository

December 1, 2004

Fred M. Heath
Vice Provost and Director of Libraries
University of Texas at Austin

Daniel A. Updegrove
Vice President for Information Technology
University of Texas at Austin

UTOPIA is the University of Texas portal and institutional repository. Situated at the confluence of the digital revolution and scholarly content, it is intended as the world’s gateway to the University’s unique reservoir of intellectual and cultural resources. It also offers University of Texas faculty and researchers the opportunity to showcase their work and demonstrate the difference they can make in the everyday lives of citizens. Incubated last year under the able leadership of the Resource Development office and ITS, and launched with great promise in the spring, responsibility for the management of its content and future growth has been transferred to the University Libraries. UTOPIA operates an extensive re-granting program as incentive to faculty, and will draw upon a national advisory board to shape its offerings. This is a unique university approach to constructing an Institutional Repository.

http://utopia.utexas.edu/

Presentation available
at http://webspace.utexas.edu/fh355/www

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The Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Progress Report

December 1, 2004

Marshall Breeding
Library Technology Officer
Vanderbilt University

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, the world’s most extensive and comprehensive collection of U.S. national television news programming, continues a major transformation. Its progress toward a stable future is being developed on three fronts: a conversion of its operation from one based on videotape to digital technologies, a sustainable financial environment through a paid subscription service, and the pursuit of a legal framework to allow wider access to its collection. The Archive has completed a one-year grant from NSF to explore digital technologies and has received grants from a local foundation to implement its new digital video recording facility based on the results of that investigation. Digitization of the retrospective videotape collection is currently underway, made possible through a two-year NEH grant. The Archive negotiated an agreement with CNN to allow access of that network’s material through streaming video. This streaming video is a key component of the subscription service the Archive now offers. The briefing will describe the details of these developments and will invite discussion of the technical, business, and legal issues involved.

Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University: Current Status and Recent Accomplishments
(PowerPoint Presentation)

http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

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The Virtual Data Center

December 1, 2004

Micah Altman
Associate Director, Harvard-MIT Data Center
Harvard University

The Virtual Data Center (VDC) provides a complete, open-source, digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange, and citation of virtual collections of quantitative data. VDC functionality provides everything necessary to maintain and disseminate an individual collection of research studies, including facilities for the storage, archiving, cataloging, translation, and dissemination of each collection. On-line analysis is provided, powered by the R Statistical environment. The system provides extensive support for distributed and federated collections including: location-independent naming of objects, distributed authentication and access control, federated metadata harvesting, remote repository caching, and distributed
“virtual” collections of remote objects.

http://thedata.org/

Factsheet available at
http://thedata.org/uploads/Main/VDCfactsheet.pdf

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