Context

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Context

• CIMI
• Museum community
• 30 museums, vendors, related organizations
• Research, testbeds, awareness, education,
  standards

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Context

• Standards for Interchange access
• Z3950
• Standards for structure
• SGML, XML
• Metadata standards
• DC for discovery
• Others for rich description

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Interest in OAI

• OAI as access enabling technology
• Test Simple, low barrier assertion
• Continue to evaluate DC
• Get friendly with OAI 1.0 for museums
• Can museums use it
• Can we help

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Collection provided

• CIMI DC testbed
• Museum objects and derivatives
• 163,000 records
• 10 museums

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MuseumMetadata Model
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Technical Infrastructure

• Layered Approach
• Standardized APIs
• Interchangeable Components
• Generic OAI-Compliant Repository
• Generic HTTP Interface

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Application Roadmap
Apache Web Server
Apache JServ
CIMI OAI-HTTP Servlet
CIMI OAI Repository API
Reference Implementation Of API Using MySQL
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Development Process

• Designed Java API for OAMS-Compliant Repository
• Designed Java Servlet to Interface Between
  HTTP/OAI Protocol Layers and Repository
• Wrote Reference Implementation of OAMS-Compliant
  Repository using JDBC and MySQL

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Issues With Implementation

• Concurrency Control
• Limited Query Capabilities
• Limited Security Model

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Future Directions

• investigate community use of OAI
• Interaction with other communities
• OAI Repository in a box
• Training via CIMI Institute
• Build harvesting service

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