TutorialOAI and OAI-PMH for Beginners.ppt

3rd OAForum workshop - Berlin - 27th-29th March 2003 - Tutorial: OAI and OAI-PMH for Beginners - Part I Tutorial OAI and OAI-PMH for BeginnersAn introduction to the Open Archives Initiative and the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Pete Cliff UKOLN, University of Bath, United Kingdom p.d.cliff@ukoln.ac.uk Uwe Müller Humboldt University Berlin, Germany u.mueller@cms.hu-berlin.de Agenda Part I History and overview Part II Main Ideas of the OAI-PMH / Technical introduction Short break Part III – Breakout Sessions Implementation issues – data and service provider Coffee Break Part IV Implementation issues – XML schema and supporting multiple record formats Acknowledgements Some of the slides presented here are our own! Many of them have been kindly donated by (taken from!) Herbert Van de Sompel Carl Lagoze Michael Nelson Simeon Warner Andy Powell (and others probably!) Tutorial OAI and OAI-PMH for BeginnersAn introduction to the Open Archives Initiative and the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Part I: History and overview A History Lesson - Roots of OAI Some early activity XXX (arXiv), CogPrints, NCSTRL, RePEc Web interfaces for people No machine interfaces Different interfaces for different archives End Users forced to learn diverse interfaces Little or no autonomous metadata sharing Santa Fe Meeting “…the joint impact of these and future initiatives can be substantially higher when interoperability between them [e-print archives] can be established…” [Ginsparg, Luce, Van de Sompel, UPS Call, July 1999] The Problems Two problems: End users where/are faced with multiple search interfaces making resource discovery harder. No machine based way of sharing the metadata Cross Search? US Digital Library Experience suggests cross searching doesn’t scale - N 100 = bad! Collection description - knowing which target to use Query language and search attribute variation Rank merging problem Different size and type of target can skew results Performance - limited