Phillip Long, Infectious Adoption, Syllabus Magazine, July 3, 2004. The first article I've seen on mod_oai, the tool by Michael Nelson and Herbert Van de Sompel to extend the reach of the OAI-MHP from the comparatively small body of content archived in OAI-compliant archives to the huge body of content streaming through Apache web servers. Excerpt: With mod_oai virally distributed as an Apache module "[l]arge amounts of data stored in digital repositories can then be found by students or faculty from their Web browsers, with minimal implementation overhead. What might this enable? From the browser of your choice you might be able to find articles, research reports, images of paintings from the Renaissance, or sound files of Woody Guthrie’s original performances collected from the federated digital repositories of libraries around the Internet. All of this depends upon the continued hard work of creating the metadata that describes these resources, which librarians and information professionals are doing every day. They need more support for their valuable efforts, making what has been done accessible and useful reinforcing the value of this work and the ability for deep resources to surface."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/03/2004 10:12:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
