MASHing metadata: Legacy issues in OAI harvesting from three digital libraries

Khoo, Michael; Tudhope, Doug; Binding, Ceri; Jones, Hilary; Orrego, Ivan; Ahn, Jae-wook

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Title

MASHing metadata: Legacy issues in OAI harvesting from three digital libraries

Author(s)

• Khoo, Michael
• Tudhope, Doug
• Binding, Ceri
• Jones, Hilary
• Orrego, Ivan
• Ahn, Jae-wook

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• digital libraries
• oai-pmh
• knowledge management
• information systems
• research methods
• dublin core
• legacy issues
• metadata harvesting

Date of Ingest

2013-01-30T22:27:12Z

Abstract

This note reports on efforts to build a generalizable OAI-PMH workflow to retrieve metadata sets from unrelated digital libraries. This effort is part of a wider effort to build a database to aggregate metadata from different digital libraries, which can then be used as the basis for content analysis and data mining experiments with the metadata records. A pilot metadata harvest from three digital libraries using OAIPMH encountered a number of issues, arising from idiosyncratic legacy characteristics of each of the three metadata sets. In the end, the harvests had to be manually tailored to each library. OAI-PMH proved to be a useful approach, but only after communication with each digital library had identified important characteristics of each metadata set, including many legacy characteristics, which had to be accounted for in the harvest.

Publisher

iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Paper / Presentation

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/39354

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13263

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