A Metadata Application Profile for Canadian Repositories

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A Metadata Application Profile for Canadian
Repositories
9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses
and Dissertations Québec City 2006-06-09
Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University Kathleen
Shearer, Canadian Association of Research
Libraries
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This Presentation

• CARL Institutional Repositories Project
• CARL Harvester
• Snapshot of the metadata
• Working group
• Current activities, status

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CARL Repositories Project

• Conferences, meetings
• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Winnipeg, MB, June
  2004)
• Institutional Repositories The Future Is Now!
  (Halifax, October 2004)
• Support activities
• Perform annual survey
• Advocate, promote IRs
• Sharing best practices (e.g., email list)
• Research, publications
• CARL Harvester
• Search service
• Improve PKP Harvester (http//pkp.sfu.ca)
• Develop Metadata Application Profile

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CARL Harvester

• Canadian Association of Research Libraries /
  Association des bibliothèques de recherche du
  Canada's Institutional Repository Metadata
  Harvester
• http//carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/
• Launched June 2004
• Primarily a search engine for the harvested
  metadata

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Participants

• Archimede Université Laval
• Collection mémoires et thèses de l'Université
  Laval
• DSpace_at_UCalgary.ca
• eCommonsResearch (University of Winnipeg)
• Mspace (University of Manitoba)

• Papyrus - Dépôt institutionnel numérique
  (Université de Montréal)
• Simon Fraser University Institutional Repository
• T-Space (University of Toronto)
• University of Saskatchewan Electronic Theses
  Dissertations
• University of Waterloo Electronic Theses

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Records/metadata

• Unqualified Dublin Core via OAI-PMH
• 22,751 records
• Daily additions
• Frequent spikes
• Some interesting patterns

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Searches

• 1,628 searches between April 1/04 and June 15/05
  (average 3.7 per day)
• 1,277 simple, 351 advanced
• 21 returned no records

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Application Profiles

• A set of metadata elements, policies, and
  guidelines defined for a particular application
  or implementation
• Defines best practices appropriate to the
  application
• Examples
• ePrints UK Using Simple Dublin Core to Describe
  Eprints
• ARROW Discovery Service Harvesting Guide

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CARL AP Working Group

• Informal, volunteer
• Diverse membership
• Communication
• Email
• Teleconferences
• Face to face meetings September 2005, June 2006
• Overall goal is to develop our profile by
  October 2006

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Specific Goals

• Develop guidelines that
• Improve quality of aggregated metadata
• Are voluntary
• Are practical
• Benefits include
• Better centralized services
• Improve quality of exposed metadata
• Guidance for new repositories

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Process for the Working Group

• Develop use cases
• Analyze existing aggregated metadata
• Perform gap analysis
• Survey other APs
• Draft the Canadian Repositories AP (CARL Core)
• Implement
• Monitor results

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Challenges

• Defining user needs
• Diverse, decentralized members
• Group vs. local needs
• Bilingual metadata and documents
• A simple yet effective profile
• Level 1, Level 2
• Developing added value

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• Kathleen Shearer
• mkshearer_at_videotron.ca
• Mark Jordan
• mjordan_at_sfu.ca