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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