I am curious about how, for instance, the OAI-PMH system works. I have seen a few examples and I know we are going to talk about this later in the class, but it just seems like such a useful protocol. Are there readily available software system that allow the use of the OAI-PMH (i.e. can you use DSPACE or Greenstone)? What are the operational boundaries to setting up a distributed digital library with this type of functionality? I imagine that in some communities getting everyone to format data or metadata in the required way (Dublin CORE?) could be a major sticking point. If the metadata schema required to use the OAI-PMH does not work well with an established institutional metadata schema are there workarounds? For instance, Federal projects are required to store geospatial metadata in FDGC form, can that be augmented in order to set up an OAI-PMH based digital library?
Anyway, maybe I am getting ahead of things, but this is very interesting to me and what I hope to do in the future.
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