1. Introduction to Digital Libraries Assignment #4
Old Dominion University
Department of Computer Science
CS 695 Fall 2004
Michael L. Nelson
11/21/04

2. Build a Digital Library
collect at least 1000 “objects” to build a digital library
harvest with OAI-PMH (as per assignment #3)
or scrape HTML (as per assignment #2)
you can write your own software, or use an existing DL package:

3. 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
for popular music, build links into
build links to cached versions in google.com or archive.org
export its holdings via OAI-PMH as well (i.e. be an OAI-PMH aggregator):

4. Demo Demo during regularly scheduled exam time Must be able to show:
all searching, browsing, linking services
full OAI-PMH compliance for harvesting your metadata demonstrated by:
direct links to your baseURL, and/or
using the repository explorer
Grading:
25% for each service (searching, browsing, linking, aggregating)