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OAI-PMH repositories: quality issues regarding metadata and protocol compliance

Cole, Tim and Warner, Simeon M. (2005) OAI-PMH repositories: quality issues regarding metadata and protocol compliance. Delivered at CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI4), Geneva (Switzerland). Presentation.

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Abstract

This tutorial will provide an overview of emerging guidelines and best practices for OAI data providers and how they relate to expectations and needs of service providers. The audience should already be familiar with OAI protocol basics and have at least some experience with either data provider or service provider implementations. The speakers will present both protocol compliance best practices and general recommendations for creating and disseminating high-quality "shareable metadata". Protocol best practices discussion will include coverage of OAI
identifiers, date-stamps, deleted records, sets, resumption tokens, about containers, branding, errors conditions, HTTP server issues, and repository lifecycle issues.
Discussion of what makes for good, shareable metadata will cover topics including character encoding, namespace and XML schema issues, metadata crosswalk issues, support of multiple metadata formats, general metadata authoring recommendations, specific recommendations for use of Dublin Core elements, metadata authority, and examples of metadata bad practice. Implications of data provider practice for service providers will be explored (and vice versa).

Keywords:OAI-PMH repositories, high-quality metadata sharing, Dublin Core, XML
Subjects:I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures.
I. Information treatment for information services > IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques.
ID Code:5502
Deposited By:Italian Staff, E-LIS
Deposited On:25 January 2006
Alternative Locations:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/simeon/talks/OAI4_2005-10-20/OAI4-tutorial-simeon.pdf, http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/Cole_OAI4_ShareableMetadata.ppt, http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/OAI4_Tutorial_1_URLs.htm
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