Open Archive Forum

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Open Archive Forum

• Rachel Heery
• UKOLN, University of Bath
• r.heery_at_ukoln.ac.uk
• www.ukoln.ac.uk

UKOLN is funded by Resource The Council for
Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the
Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as
well as by project funding from the JISC and the
European Union. UKOLN also receives support from
the University of Bath where it is based.
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Contents

• Preliminaries project background
• Promises project objectives
• Practicalities how? why?

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Open Archives Forum

• European Union IST accompanying measure
• Humboldt University, Berlin
• IEI-CNR, Pisa
• UKOLN, University of Bath
• Under contract negotiation, start date autumn
  2001

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Why are UKOLN involved?

• Interoperability
• Low cost low barrier vision of interoperability
• Change of emphasis from distributed to
  centralised searching
• Use of XML v. RDF

• Shared metadata schemas
• Wide-ranging implementation of Dublin Core
• Requirement for registering schemas
• Potential for metadata sharing

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Related work using OAI in RDN
HUMBUL
EEVL
PSIgate
BIOME
SOSIG

• share records using OAI
• build central database of all RDN records
• basis for central search, browse interface and
  other services (e.g. Web index)

RDN ResourceFinder
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EU motivation

• Release value of invisible Web
• Low cost interoperability
• Articulate European perspective
• Ensure European organisations ready to exploit
  opportunities
• Optimise effort within cluster of projects
• raising awareness, ready for action

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Project objectives

• Provide focus for dissemination
• Encourage collaborative development of software
• Support European liaison with OAI
• Exchange information
• Co-ordinate validation of OAI protocols
• .. build community of interest

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Who will participate ?

• Cultural heritage institutions
• Research organisations
• Public library sector
• Community services
• Publishers
• Commercial sector
• Education sector

• As service providers
• E-print services
• Aggregators
• Services that add value
• As data providers
• Established metadata repositories
• New data providers

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Explore business models

• Data providers co-operating to form network of
  service providers
• Data providers will be service providers
• Metadata provided free to service providers
• Provision of added value services (document
  delivery, services for targeted audiences)

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Evaluate OAI protocol

• Compare with existing technologies
• HARVEST, Z39.50
• Is simple Dublin Core sufficiently rich?
• What types of organisations could best exploit
  OA(I) which domains?
• Benefits to users??

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Plans

• Workshops
• series of four workshops
• informed by domain specific reports
• OAI EU Information Source
• inventory of software tools
• interoperability issues register
• current implementations database
• Please register interest..

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URLs

• Andy Powell. Use of OAI by subject
  gatewaysltwww.rdn.ac.uk/publications/www10/gt
• OAI meetings at ECDL2001
• Workshop Experimental OAI Based Digital Library
  Systems Sep 8 lthttp//www.cs.odu.edu/OaiEcdlWorksh
  opgt
• Tutorial Digital Library Interoperability via
  Metadata Harvesting (Sep. 4 afternoon)
• OAI Open Meeting, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
• lthttp//www.cultivate-int.org/issue4/oai/gt