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Open Archives Work at Virginia Tech

Open Archives Work at Virginia Tech. Hussein Suleman Digital Libraries Research Laboratory Virginia Tech. OAi - Related Projects. Computer Science Teaching Center Web Characterization Repository VT-ETD USMARC XML-DTD NDLTD / MARIAN Repository Explorer

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Open Archives Work at Virginia Tech

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  1. Open Archives Work at Virginia Tech Hussein Suleman Digital Libraries Research Laboratory Virginia Tech

  2. OAi - Related Projects • Computer Science Teaching Center • Web Characterization Repository • VT-ETD • USMARC XML-DTD • NDLTD / MARIAN • Repository Explorer • Perl/Java Dienst subset implementation

  3. Organizational Issues • No specific responsibilities for sections of OAi • No public forum • Inconsistency in versions of specifications • Proposal: • More well-defined management of the OAi may avoid many organizational/technical problems

  4. Technical Issues - I • Partition Specifications • all nodes in partition name ? • two separators ? • overlapping ? • Updates / Deletions • re-send updates ? • how do we handle deletions ?

  5. Technical Issues - II • Namespaces • oams vs OAMS • <oams:author> vs <author> • duplicates with different ids ? • Versioning • simpler version numbers for protocol ? • internal metadata version number ?

  6. Technical Issues - III • Listings • to-date ? • count of records ? • lack of locking mechanism ? • Character Sets / Markup • SGML character sets in XML ? • ISO 8879 vs Unicode ? • HTML for abstract formatting ?

  7. Technical Issues - IV • Special Collections • WCR, CSTC, VTETD - is OAMS appropriate ? • name/value pairs for metadata ? • bibliographies ? • Dienst • fixed vs named parameters ? • entities in some URLS • Verb to get info. on archive eg. separator

  8. Technical Issues - V • Data Cleaning • how much ? • whitespace in generated XML

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