22–24 Jun 2011
University of Geneva
Europe/Zurich timezone

Approaching Next-Generation OAI Service Providers: The BASE Case

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University of Geneva

University of Geneva

Poster Poster Session

Speaker

Mr Friedrich Summann (Bielefeld University Library)

Description

During the recent years, OAI service providers have become a well-established backbone of scholarly communication. However, in the meantime the development of the academic web did not stand still. Aggregating metadata and making them searchable via a unified interface is performed by many search engines and not unique anymore. Rather, a service provider could exploit the potential of Open Archives by supporting value-added services such as enrichment, refinement or data linking. Thus, when service providers become data providers themselves by offering the aggregated -- and ideally enhanced -- data via APIs, the development of further services will be fueled. In this way, the network of scholarly communication shall become richer and generate novel, maybe unforeseen applications of the data from local repository systems. Current activities in the context of BASE-SEARCH.NET focus on the re-design of the architecture for an OAI service provider to fulfill these novel requirements. Having been run by Bielefeld University Library since 2004, BASE-SEARCH.NET is a registered service provider that collects, normalizes, and indexes data using OAI-PMH and provides one of the world's most complete aggregations of OAI publication data. BASE-SEARCH.NET is providing data interfaces and index access for numerous other service providers. Moreover, we are developing (DFG funded) machine learning-based text categorization services to automatically apply subject indexing of OAI DC records for being able to provide access to subject-specific subsets of the aggregation. On the basis of these activities and experiences, we will present our ideas of a novel, open architecture for OAI service providers. Current activities in the context of BASE-SEARCH.NET focus on the re-design of the architecture for an OAI service provider to fulfill these novel requirements. Having been run by Bielefeld University Library since 2004, BASE-SEARCH.NET is a registered service provider that collects, normalizes, and indexes data using OAI-PMH and provides one of the world's most complete aggregations of OAI publication data. BASE-SEARCH.NET is providing data interfaces and index access for numerous other service providers. Moreover,we are developing (DFG funded) machine learning-based text categorization to automatically apply subject indexing of OAI DC records for being able to provide access to subject-specific subsets of the aggregation. On the basis of these activities and experiences, we will present our ideas of a novel, open architecture for OAI service providers.
Your name Mathias Loesch
Your email mathias.loesch@uni-bielefeld.de
Your affiliation/institution Bielefeld University Library

Primary author

Mr Friedrich Summann (Bielefeld University Library)

Co-authors

Mr Bernd Fehling (Bielefeld University Library) Mr Dirk Pieper (Bielefeld University Library) Mr Marek Imialek (Bielefeld University Library) Mr Mathias Lösch (Bielefeld University Library) Ms Renata Mitrenga (Bielefeld University Library) Mr Sebastian Wolf (Bielefeld University Library) Mr Wolfram Horstmann (Bielefeld University Library)

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