Jeremy, OAI Day 1, Part I, The Digital Librarian, October 20, 2004. Excerpt:
Apparently, the conference is to be webcast, and the video will be uploaded five minutes after each session. URL for agenda and presentations: here....Welcome, Maximillion Metzger: CERN has been involved since the early 90’s in managing their own institutional repository. CERN participation in the open access movement due to its obligation to make the results of its work public.
Erland Kolding-Nielson: LIBER is a major organization of major European research libraries. Its aim is to assist the research libraries to become a functional network across national bounaries.
Herbert Van de Sompel: Herbert’s talk is a technical talk about OAI-PMH, especially about utilizing the OAI-PMH protocol for harvesting actual resources in addition to just metadata.
The entry also includes notes on talks by Michael Nelson, Simeon Warner, and Stu Weibel.
The first presentation after the break was the Ockham presentation. Eric [Lease Morgan] spoke (loudly) for Ockham, and how Ockham promotes open access to scholarly communication via lightweight protocols such as OAI-PMH....Eric described the Ockham alerting service to show a fairly simple alerting tool that utilizes OAI-PMH to pull content and SRU/W for search access. It alerts via email and RSS.
Eric then described MyLibrary@Ockham to show a ‘how to find more like this one’ type of service.
Eric related the registry to Herbert’s earlier presentation on aDORe and his use of OAI-PMH and Compound Objects alongside services.
The best demo was Eric’s display of applying the spell recommender service to a search of the British Library. Stu Weibel presented for Jeff Young on Jeff’s WikiD project. WikiD extends the notion of Wikis to support multiple collections containing arbitrary XML schemas, and also it provides a number of different interfaces for access, such as OpenURL, SRU/W, RSS, OAI-PMH, etc....Johan Bollen presented on “A framework for assessing the impact of units of scholarly communication based on OAI-PMH harvesting of usage information.” Johan made a point that change in the scholarly communication process is a user-driven revolution (links, blogs, search engine use, etc.)....The final presentation of the day was by Tim Brody, on “Incites into Citation Linking using the OAI-PMH”. Tim showed a model for IR linking in Institutional Repositories. Tim recommends coupling OpenURLs within Simple DC accessed via OAI-PMH. His approach is to add OpenURLs not only for the object, but for the record itself, and to also add in reference data into a record as OpenURLs for cited items. Interesting, but it isn’t clear to me that the reward is great enough to overcome the barrier to adoption, especially if this is a bridging solution as opposed to a long-term solution. If folks start taking up the COinS approach, this may have a chance of being adopted, as COinS might encourage a range of functions that current do not exist.
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Peter Suber at 10/21/2005 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
