Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Will You Only Harvest Some?DigitalKoans, May 26, 2005. Excerpt: 'The Digital Library for Information Science and Technology [DLIST] has announcedDL-Harvest, an OAI-PMH service provider that harvests and makes searchable metadata about information science materials from [11] archives and repositories....DL-Harvest is a much needed, innovative discipline-based search service. Big kudos to all involved....Discipline-focused metadata can be relatively easily harvested from OAI-PHM-compliant systems that are organized along disciplinary lines (e.g., the entire archive/repository is discipline-based or an organized subset is discipline-based)....[B]ut how about the smaller veins and nuggets that are hard to identify and harvest because they are in systems or subsets that focus on another discipline? Here's an example....'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/27/2005 10:29:00 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.
