Post on 30-Dec-2015
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HaIRST: an embryonic harvested union
catalogue for Scotland
Gordon DunsireCentre for Digital Library Research
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HaIRST project
o Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland Testbed
o Funded by JISC, Aug 2002 – Jul 2005o Strathclyde Universityo Glasgow College Groupo John Wheatley Collegeo Napier Universityo St Andrews University
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Institutional repository
o Catalogue of online digital resources created by an organisationo Often includes the resources themselves
(databank)o Original focus on HE institutions and
research materialso e-prints, e-theses
o Now much wider rangeo Learning and teaching materialso Reports, minutes, foi materialso House journals, image banks
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Unionisation
o Cross-searching achieved by copying metadata from multiple repositories to create a union catalogueo Every metadata record is unique
because resource is unique
o Copying is done automatically and at regular intervalso Metadata “harvesting”
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Open access
o Harvesting concept arose from the Open Access movemento High quality digital resources freely
available online
o Open Access Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)o Metadata schema based on Dublin
Core (oai-dc)
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Testbed
o Early experience of local repositories at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities (and elsewhere)o But narrow range of materials
o Need to investigate metadata issues arising fromo A wider range of resourceso Local vs “global” requirements
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Current status
o Operational metadata repository at St Andrews University
o Experimental repositories for other project partners
o Harvested union catalogue of all repository metadatao Available online (and harvestable
itself)o And now harvesting Edinburgh and
Glasgow repositories …
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Next
o Z39.50 interface and incorporation in CAIRNSo And Scottish Distributed Digital Library
mini-clump
o Possible addition of other repositorieso Investigating use of ‘static repository’
approach to exposing resources from (closed) digitisation projects
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Demonstration
o http://speirserver.cdlr.strath.ac.uk:8088/arc/hairst_search.jsp
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Thank you!
o HaIRST project websiteo http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
o HaIRST catalogueo http://speirserver.cdlr.strath.ac.uk:808
8/arc/hairst_search.jsp
o More about Open Archives Initiative at OAISISo http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/oaisis/ind
ex.htm