Open Archives Initiative CNI Phoenix December 13, 1999 Dale Flecker, Harvard Carl Lagoze, Cornell John Ober, CDL Don Waters, Mellon
Laying the foundations of an infrastructure for new models of scholarly publishing.
Building on existing EPrint Efforts Los Alamos XXX Archive (Physics and Math) RePEc Initiative (Economics) NSTRL and CoRR (Computer Science) CogPrints (Cognitive Science) NTLTD (Theses and Dissertations)
UPS Meeting Sante Fe, October 21,22 Hosted by Paul Ginsparg, Rick Luce, Herbert Van de Sompel Sponsors: CLIR, DLF, SPARC, ARL, LANL library. Meeting moderators: Clifford Lynch & Don Waters.
What is Interoperability? Naming? –Handles –Purls Metadata? –MARC –Dublin Core Document models? –WebDAV Federated searching? –Z39.50? –DASL? Services and Protocols? –Dienst
Partitioning Interoperability Document Models Metadata Harvesting Mediator Services Linking, Searching, Summarizing
Metadata Harvesting Common Metadata Set Support for Archive Specific Metadata Vocabularies Common Harvesting Protocol
Open Archives Metadata Set Facilitate coarse granularity discovery Compatible with Dublin Core TitleAuthor and Affiliation Entry Date Discovery DateSubjectAbstract Unique IDAccess URLComment
Support for Archive Specific Metadata Vocabularies Recognize unique needs of individual communities (Warwick Framework) Only restriction is XML transport of metadata semantics
Common Harvesting Protocol Small subset of Dienst protocol – – Service Requests: –List accessions after date –Dump metadata (in format) after date –Return supported metadata vocabularies –Return metadata for a specific record
What’s Next? Plug-in software Implementation by meeting participants Publication of Results (D-lib magazine) Participation by existing and developing archives Workshop at DL2000 and ECDL2000
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