Breakout Session Tools and Implementation Issues

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Uwe Müller

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

OAI Data Providers

few projects / institutions with working OAI interfaces

most participants: intend to make data bases OAI complient

resources:documents

multimedia objects (photographs, drawings, recordings, ...)

learning materials, scholar materials

journals

year books

...

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

Own Implementations

reasonsoften: just do not know about existing tools

early implementors

sometimes easier to solve special problems (do not have to adapt existing tools)

want to re-use existing systems

specialists for certain programming languages / data bases

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

Using Existing Tools

reasonsall-in-one-package

support (mailing lists etc.)

open source

eprints.org (Southampton University)most used tool

seems to be best package solution

DSpace (MIT)– too complicated to install– provides only “googlish” search

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

Technological Issues

Search Engines vs. Dynamic Information“blind hole” can be closed by the OAI-PMH

Language problems occur for service providersshould have translation services

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

Organisational Issues

Definition of SetsHow should sets be defined using OAI?

Necessary: Agreements above the protocol (e.g. CIMI) including syntax (set names) and semantics (meaning)

service provider & universal set definitions for museums / media community not existent: probably task for CIMI

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

Special Presentations

AdLIB Information Systemssearch engine and internet server (display collections)

provide OAI interface (2.0 not complete yet, 1.1 fully implemented and tested)

possibility to define mapping between internal database and metadata fields

Ukrainian Catholic University (Institute of Church History)

several multimedia projects (images, recordings ...)

not yet OAI compatible

but: interested in Open Access

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Breakout Session: Tools and Implementation Issues