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An agile approach to the development of Dublin Core Application Profiles
I have been asked to provide a position paper for next week’s Future of Interoperability Standards meeting hosted by CETIS. This blog post is one I have been meaning to write for ages so I’m offering it as a position … Continue reading →
Posted in Information Management, Metadata
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Tagged cetis, dcap, dcmi, dublin-core, JISC, mrvobi, ukoln
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Repository architecture #83
At a JISC workshop last Thursday I was invited to present some ideas around an architecture to support and exploit repositories in the UK. I gave the presentation the title Repository Architecture #83 . My intention was to suggest some … Continue reading →
Posted in Information Management, Metadata, Web Infrastructure
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Tagged JISC, ORE, repositories, resource-oriented, ukoln
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Linked data from OAI repositories
Here’s an interesting approach. Bernhard Haslhofer at Media Spaces has developed OAI2LOD Server, a system which harvests metadata with OAI-PMH, processes the records to create a triple store and exposes interfaces to this for linked-data clients, SPARQL clients and web-browsers. … Continue reading →
Google gives up on supporting OAI-PMH for Sitemaps
For some time now I have occasionally advised people involved in repository administration that they should consider registering the Base URL of their OAI-PMH interface (if they have one) with Google as a proxy for a Sitemap. Until recently, Google … Continue reading →
Posted in Metadata, Programmable Web, Web Infrastructure
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Tagged Google, OAI-PMH, Sitemap
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Bespoke metadata creation tools are commonplace
RLG Programs has conducted a survey of partner institutions which have “multiple metadata creation centers” to: …gain a baseline understanding of current descriptive metadata practices and dependencies, the first project in our program to change metadata creation processes. Some intriguing … Continue reading →
