This is the kind of problem that I had hoped that OAI-PMH would help us with, as it offers a way for institutions to broadcast what they have in a way that other institutions can re-use (metadata only, not the actual resources, which we wouldn't really want to store! Much better to get other folk's metadata, especially when they update it and can tell you it's been updated). Big projects like OAIster aside, however, how many folks actually run an OAI harvester locally? How many incorporate those results into their catalogs? How many catalog systems support OAI-PMH?
The University of North Texas put together an OAI harvester for a project we worked on (metasearch of digital collections). The results I saw from our harvests weren't suitable for adding to a library catalog. They are barely suitable for presentation on the web, in many cases. Some of the problem is with the tools that were creating the OAI for harvesting, which often only presented a fraction of the available metadata. However, a lot of the problem had to do with lack of normalized metadata, which, for better or worse, we get in library catalogs due to AACR2, MARC, and OCLC.
Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)
dplumer_at_tsl.state.tx.us
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU]On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:00 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Cataloging Web Resources - policies
Ross Singer wrote:
> The problem, of course, is how do you advertise to the world that some
> NEA white paper, obscure boutique Indonesian e-journal or DOE
> technical report that disappears from the web at large is available
> via LOCKSS?
>
>
However, you do it, you'd better do it on the Web and not inside a
library catalog database.
kc
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