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Open Archives Forum Workshop University of Bath, September 2003
Workshop summing up
Rachel Heery
UKOLN, University of Bath
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.
Open Archives Forum Workshop, September 2003
Exchanging ideasEstablishing collaboration
Confirmation – OAI works and is usefulGrowing variety of contexts for OAI implementation
…. where do we go from here?
Open Archives Forum Workshop, September 2003
Providers
Embed OAI in production services Establish quality control
- policies and agreements
- cataloguing guidelines
- authority control
Establish good practices regarding processing
- common cross-walks
Retain rich metadata
Agree handling of rights metadata
Open Archives Forum Workshop, September 2003
Researchers
Looking for new approaches
Exploring complementary add-ons or alternatives to hand crafted metadata
- free text indexing
- automated m/data creation
Potential for ‘fuzzy records’ encompassing aggregated metadata, links, annotations, branding,
Open Archives Forum Workshop, September 2003
OAI Distributed systems
What is distinctive about OAI?
Rely on flow of metadata between different parties
Who is responsible?
Who funds ‘framework’ activities?
Who ensures effectiveness for end-user?
Open Archives Forum Workshop, September 2003
Extracting order from chaos
Learning from order
…. ‘metadata gardening’?