Dublin Core Metadata Harvested Through OAI-PMH

The introduction in 2001 of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) increased interest in and awareness of metadata quality issues relevant to digital library interoperability and the use of harvested metadata to build "union catalogs" of digital information...

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Published in:Journal of library metadata 2008-04, Vol.8 (1), p.5-21
Main Authors: Jackson, Amy S., Han, Myung-Ja, Groetsch, Kurt, Mustafoff, Megan, Cole, Timothy W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
digital collections
Digital libraries
Exact sciences and technology
Information and communication sciences
Information and document structure and analysis
Information processing and retrieval
Information science. Documentation
Metadata
OAI-PMH
Open access
Sciences and techniques of general use
Universities
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Summary:The introduction in 2001 of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) increased interest in and awareness of metadata quality issues relevant to digital library interoperability and the use of harvested metadata to build "union catalogs" of digital information resources. Practitioners have offered wide-ranging advice to metadata authors and have suggested metrics useful for measuring the quality of shareable metadata. Is there evidence of changes in metadata practice in response to such advice and/or as a result of an increased awareness of the importance of metadata interoperability? This paper looks at metadata records created over a six-year period that have been harvested by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and reports on quantitative and qualitative analyses of changes observed over time in shareable metadata quality.
ISSN:1938-6389
1937-5034
DOI:10.1300/J517v08n01_02