Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:07:00 GMT

The new issue of Library Hi Tech is devoted to the …. The new issue of Library Hi Tech is devoted to the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting. The guest editor Timothy W. Cole. Only abstracts are free online. Here's the TOC.

• Timothy W. Cole, Using OAI: innovations in the sharing of information

• Carl Lagoze; Herbert Van de Sompel, The making of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
• Caroline R. Arms, Available and useful: OAI at the Library of Congress
• Michael L. Nelson, Terry L. Harrison, and JoAnne Rocker, OAI and NASA's scientific and technical information
• Simeon Warner, E-prints and the Open Archives Initiative
• Sarah L. Shreeves, Joanne S. Kaczmarek, and Timothy W. Cole, Harvesting cultural heritage metadata using the OAI Protocol
• Kat Hagedorn, OAIster: a “no dead ends” OAI service provider
• Martin Halbert, The Metascholar Initiative: AmericanSouth.Org and MetaArchive.Org
• Christopher J. Prom, Reengineering archival access through the OAI protocols
• Gary Simons and Steven Bird, Building an Open Language Archives Community on the OAI foundation
• Hussein Suleman and Edward A. Fox, Leveraging OAI harvesting to disseminate theses
• William Y. Arms, Naomi Dushay, Dave Fulker, and Carl Lagoze, A case study in metadata harvesting: the NSDL
• Judith Wusteman, XML to the desktop
• Morell D. Boone, Library facility planning – the consultant's view: a chat with Andrea Michaels
• Michael Seadle, Copyright in a networked world: digital distance education

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there are some interesting links here, i hope to see more in the future. we helped 2 years ago to add project gutenberg to Open Archives, along with the RFC and IETF proceedings. the computer scientists didn't build an autoupdate app though, so they are likely out of date now.