6 OAI-PMH

the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
an update
Herbert Van de Sompel
Los Alamos National Laboratory – Research Library
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The Open Archives Initiative has been set up
to create a forum to discuss and solve matters
of interoperability between preprint solutions,
as a way to promote their global acceptance.
Paul Ginsparg, Rick Luce & Herbert Van de Sompel
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Luce * Van de Sompel * Ginsparg
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• 2 core motivations
• as a systems librarian: change the
system
• as a researcher: find (technical) ways to
facilitate the change
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as a systems librarian
optimizing the output
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eprint systems
• xxx e-print archive
(Physics - 1991 - Los Alamos - Ginsparg)
• RePEc
(Economy - Surrey U - Krichel)
• NCSTRL
(Computer Science - Cornell U - Lagoze)
• NDLTD
(Theses - Virginia Tech - Fox)
• CogPrints
(Cognitive Sciences - Southampton U - Harnad)
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as a researcher
• eprints are attractive building block in ongoing
transformation of scholarly communication
• but: interoperability could increase impact of e-
prints:
• amongst e-print solutions
• with building blocks that implement other
functions of scholarly communication
• with the established communication system
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UPS Prototype: eprints discovery
• 1999: Van de Sompel, Krichel, Nelson
• results:
• insights regarding how un-interoperable the
systems were
• a cross-repository searching and linking service
• recommendations to the Santa Fe meeting:
• data provider / service provider model
• metadata harvesting
• simplicity
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evolution towards OAI-PMH v.2.0
 Santa Fe Convention [02/2000]
 OAI-PMH 1.0 [01/2001]
 OAI-PMH 2.0 [06/2002]
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convention
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v.1.0/1.1
OAI-PMH
v.2.0
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responses
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metadata
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Supporting protocol requests:
• Identify
• ListMetadataFormats
• ListSets
Harvesting protocol requests:
• ListRecords
• ListIdentifiers
• GetRecord
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issue solved?
• no, just a tiny part of the technical challenges to
support discovery
• many more technical issues
• even more non-technical issues
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issue solved? technical
awareness
certification
interoperable grid
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registration
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issue solved? non-technical
• I am happy to leave those to you
• but: even for non-technological issues, part of the
answer might be found in applying technology
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indicators of adoption of OAI-PMH
 data providers
 service providers
 tools
 structural support
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data providers
• 49 registered repositories [11/2001]
• 65 registered repositories [03/2002]
• 5+ million records
• many unregistered repositories
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service providers
•Arc : cross-searching of registered
repositories [Old Dominion U]
[ http://arc.cs.odu.edu ]
• OLAC: cross-searching of Language Archive
Community repositories
http://www.language-archives.org/index.html
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service providers
• Scirus scientific search engine [Elsevier]
[ http://www.scirus.com ]
• my.OAI : user-tailorable cross-searching of
registered repositories [FS Consulting, Inc.]
[http://www.myoai.com]
• growing interest from web search engines
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OAI-PMH tools
• Repository Explorer: interactive exploration
of repositories [Virginia Tech]
[ http://www.purl.org/NET/oai_explorer ]
• eprints.org: generic OAI-PMH compliant
repository software [U of Southampton]
[ http://www.eprints.org ]
• ALCME repository and harvester software
[OCLC]
[ http://alcme.oclc.org/index.html ]
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OAI-PMH flies: structural support
• Metadata Harvesting Initiative of the Mellon
Foundation
• NSDL (NSF funded)
• UK FAIR call for proposals to support
disclosure of institutional assets (papers,
learning materials, etc.)
• Institute for Museum and Library Services
• several EC projects exploring/supporting
usage of OAI-PMH: TEL, Leaf, Cyclades, OA
Forum
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OAI-PMH flies: and also …
• Australian Museums Online & CIMI : OAI
conference
• NIMH white paper on data archiving for
Animal Cognition Research
• Library of Congress
• National Library of Canada
• OCLC thesis database
• Illinois State Library Catalogue
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future
 OAI
 OAI-PMH
 communities
 adoption
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the OAI-PMH
• release of OAI-PMH v.2.0 [06/2002]
• no backwards compatibility with v.1.0/1.1
• stable
• migration process for registered repos
• ? formal standardization ?
• ? SOAP version ~ web services framework
[SOAP, WSDL, UDDI] ?
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communities
• proliferation of community-specific add-ons
for:
• collection & set level metadata
• expressive metadata formats (e.g. qualified DC
XML Schema)
• shared set-structures
• machine readable rights (about the metadata)
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adoption
• evolution
• from talking about OAI-PMH
• to talking about projects that use OAI-PMH
• to talking about projects and failing to mention
they use OAI-PMH
=> OAI-PMH becomes part of the infrastructure
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I just wanted to report what I consider an
OAI success. I discovered that RLG had
harvested records for two of the American
Memory collections I had made available and
integrated them into their Cultural Materials
Initiative service without the need for a single
e-mail or phone call. They reported that it was
working very well for them.
[Caroline Arms, Library of Congress]
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http://www.openarchives.org
[email protected]
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the OAI: not really an organization
• Executive: Carl Lagoze & Herbert Van de Sompel
• 2000 – 2002 funding from CNI and DLF
• Steering Committee
• Technical Committe:
• protocol revision & stabilization
• Alpha testers
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OAI-tech
US representatives
Thomas Krichel (Long Island U) - Jeff Young (OCLC) Tim Cole - (U of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Hussein Suleman (Virginia Tech) - Simeon Warner
(Cornell U) - Michael Nelson (NASA) - Caroline Arms
(LoC) - Muhammad Zubair (Old Dominion U) - Steven
Bird (U Penn.)
European representatives
Andy Powell (Bath U. & UKOLN) - Mogens Sandfaer
(DTV) - Thomas Baron (CERN) - Les Carr (U of
Southampton)
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OAI-PMH 2.0 alpha testers (1/2)
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The British Library
Cornell U. -- NSDL project & e-print arXiv
Ex Libris
FS Consulting Inc -- harvester for my.OAI
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
InQuirion Pty Ltd, RMIT University
Library of Congress
NASA
OCLC
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OAI-PMH 2.0 alpha testers (2/2)
• Old Dominion U. -- ARC , DP9
• U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• U. Of Southampton -- OAIA, CiteBase, eprints.org
• UCLA, John Hopkins U., Indiana U., NYU -- sheet
music collection
• UKOLN, U. of Bath -- RDN
• Virginia Tech -- repository explorer
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