Speakers
Simeon Warner
(Cornell University)
Tim Cole
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Description
This tutorial will provide an overview of emerging guidelines and best practices for
OAI data providers and how they relate to expectations and needs of service
providers. The audience should already be familiar with OAI protocol basics and have
at least some experience with either data provider or service provider
implementations. The speakers will present both protocol compliance best practices
and general recommendations for creating and disseminating high-quality "shareable
metadata". Protocol best practices discussion will include coverage of OAI
identifiers, date-stamps, deleted records, sets, resumption tokens, about containers,
branding, errors conditions, HTTP server issues, and repository lifecycle issues.
Discussion of what makes for good, shareable metadata will cover topics including
character encoding, namespace and XML schema issues, metadata crosswalk issues,
support of multiple metadata formats, general metadata authoring recommendations,
specific recommendations for use of Dublin Core elements, metadata authority, and
examples of metadata bad practice. Implications of data provider practice for service
providers will be explored (and vice versa).
The tutorial will draw on current best practice efforts, notably a collaborative
project by the Digital Library Federation and the National Science Digital Library
(U.S.) to publish and promulgate an OAI and Shareable Metadata Best Practice document
http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OAI_Best_Practices Protocol
recommendations also draw on work to support and extend the OAI-PMH validation
service
http://www.openarchives.org/Register/ValidateSite.
Authors
Simeon Warner
(Cornell University)
Tim Cole
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
