Birds Of A Feather Session
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[edit] Birds of a Feather Session on OAI and Shareable Metadata Best Practices Work
Tuesday, October 26 from 4:30-6:00 in the Douglass Room
Description of session (from program)
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has been widely adopted since its inception in 2001; there are currently over 500 active data providers from a wide variety of domains and institution types. The protocol has demonstrated its usefulness as a tool to move and aggregate metadata from diverse institutions. However, as the protocol has become more widely adopted, several areas of concern have surfaced that would benefit from documentation of best practices. This session will report on a DLF-convened effort to develop a set of best practices for OAI data and service providers. We encourage participants to share their concerns, questions, and ideas.
Questions to ask / Discussion points (in no particular order)
- How many have implemented the OAI protocol as data providers? As service providers?
- If you haven't, why not? Are you interested? What are the obstacles?
- Particular points of pain / confusion in working with OAI? What would help mitigate these?
- What are your hopes and dreams for the protocol? What would help you get there?
- What do data providers want to know about service providers and what do service providers want to know about data providers? (sounds like a dating service!)
- How can we communicate that OAI does not equal simple Dublin Core?
