Introduction to Digital Libraries Assignment #4 Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science CS 695 Fall 2005 Michael L. Nelson <mln@cs.odu.edu> 11/21/05

Build a Digital Library collect at least 1000 “objects” to build a digital library harvest with OAI-PMH (as per assignment #3) http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/ http://celestial.eprints.org/cgi-bin/status or scrape HTML (as per assignment #2) you can write your own software, or use an existing DL package: http://www.openarchives.org/tools/tools.html

Services Fielded searching (at least 4 fields) Browsing Linking to a domain-specific service outside of your DL examples: for technical papers, build links into www.citeseer.org for popular music, build links into www.ticketmaster.com for literature, build links into www.gutenberg.org for bonus points … export its holdings via OAI-PMH as well (i.e. be an OAI-PMH aggregator). resources: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-aggregator.htm http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/jcdl03/ http://www.purl.org/NET/oai_explorer

Demo Demo during regularly scheduled exam time Must be able to show: all searching, browsing, linking services Grading: 1 point for aesthetics 4 points for each service: searching, browsing, linking 5 bonus points possible for aggregating aggregators will be tested with the Repository Explorer