Transcript HaIRST: an embryonic harvested union catalogue for Scotland

HaIRST: an embryonic
harvested union catalogue for
Scotland
Gordon Dunsire
Centre for Digital Library Research
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HaIRST project
o Harvesting Institutional Resources in
Scotland Testbed
o Funded by JISC, Aug 2002 – Jul 2005
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Strathclyde University
Glasgow College Group
John Wheatley College
Napier University
St Andrews University
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Institutional repository
o Catalogue of online digital resources created by
an organisation
o Often includes the resources themselves
(databank)
o Original focus on HE institutions and research
materials
o e-prints, e-theses
o Now much wider range
o Learning and teaching materials
o Reports, minutes, foi materials
o House journals, image banks
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Unionisation
o Cross-searching achieved by copying
metadata from multiple repositories to
create a union catalogue
o Every metadata record is unique because
resource is unique
o Copying is done automatically and at
regular intervals
o Metadata “harvesting”
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Open access
o Harvesting concept arose from the Open
Access movement
o High quality digital resources freely
available online
o Open Access Initiative – Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
o Metadata schema based on Dublin Core
(oai-dc)
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Testbed
o Early experience of local repositories at
Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities (and
elsewhere)
o But narrow range of materials
o Need to investigate metadata issues
arising from
o A wider range of resources
o Local vs “global” requirements
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Current status
o Operational metadata repository at St
Andrews University
o Experimental repositories for other
project partners
o Harvested union catalogue of all
repository metadata
o Available online (and harvestable itself)
o And now harvesting Edinburgh and
Glasgow repositories …
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Next
o Z39.50 interface and incorporation in
CAIRNS
o And Scottish Distributed Digital Library
mini-clump
o Possible addition of other repositories
o Investigating use of ‘static repository’
approach to exposing resources from
(closed) digitisation projects
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Demonstration
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http://speirserver.cdlr.strath.ac.uk:8088/arc/hairst_search.jsp
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Thank you!
o HaIRST project website
o http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
o HaIRST catalogue
o http://speirserver.cdlr.strath.ac.uk:8088
/arc/hairst_search.jsp
o More about Open Archives Initiative at
OAISIS
o http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/oaisis/inde
x.htm
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