Reminiscing About 15 Years of Interoperability Efforts

Sompel, Herbert Van de; Nelson, Michael L.

doi:10.1045/november2015-vandesompel

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“…The cultural heritage domain embraced the solution offered by OAI-PMH, since discovery of resources was only feasible if based on metadata instead of full-text [18]. In Europe, OAI-PMH had one of its largest, and earliest, applications in The European Library [19], which aggregated digital collections and bibliographic catalogues from 48 national libraries.…”

Section: Metadata Aggregation In Cultural Heritage -Past and Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…OAI-PMH was designed before the key founding concepts of the Web of Data [2]. By being centered on the concept of repository, instead of centering on the resources, the protocol is often misunderstood and its implementations fail, or are deployed with flaws that undermine its reliability [18]. Another important factor is that OAI-PMH predates REST [13].…”

Section: Metadata Aggregation In Cultural Heritage -Past and Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A survey of Web technology for metadata aggregation in cultural heritage

Freire

Isaac

Robson

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ISU

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Abstract. In the World Wide Web, a very large number of resources are made available through digital libraries. The existence of many individual digital libraries, maintained by different organizations, brings challenges to the discoverability and usage of these resources by potential users. A widely-used approach is metadata aggregation, where a central organization takes the role of facilitating the discoverability and use of the resources, by collecting their associated metadata. The central organization has the possibility to further promote the usage of the resources by means that cannot be efficiently undertaken by each digital library in isolation. This paper focuses in the domain of cultural heritage, where OAI-PMH has been the embraced solution, since discovery of resources was only feasible if based on metadata instead of full-text. However, the technological landscape has changed. Nowadays, with the technological improvements accomplished by network communications, computational capacity, and Internet search engines, the motivation for adopting OAI-PMH is not as clear as it used to be. In this paper, we present the results of our analysis of available potential technologies, using as application context the Europeana Network and its requirements for metadata aggregation. We cover the following technologies:

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Section: Metadata Aggregation In Cultural Heritage -Past and Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Metadata Aggregation In Cultural Heritage -Past and Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A survey of Web technology for metadata aggregation in cultural heritage

Freire

Isaac

Robson

et al. 2018

ISU

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“…Each project has had different specific goals, scopes, and partners, but the overarching theme among the three projects has been to investigate approaches to cross-linking related scholarly resources. As Van de Sompel and Nelson (2015) state in their own recent retrospective on a series of scholarly resource and infrastructure interoperability projects, "it is hard to know how to exactly start an effort to work towards increased interoperability," because of the diversity of challenges and stakeholders involved. The following three projects should be seen as an attempt to make multiple starts in parallel toward understanding and potentially addressing scholarly resource crosslinking challenges.…”

Section: Investigations Into Linkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This paper will not attempt to survey all of the relevant literature and initiatives in this space. Useful overviews can be found elsewhere (Borgman, 2007;Lagoze, 2010;Van de Sompel & Nelson, 2015;Mayernik, Phillips, & Nienhouse, 2016). Instead, this paper presents results and insights from three different projects focused on linking data and literature.…”

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Scholarly resource linking: Building out a “relationship life cycle”

Mayernik

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Scholarly resources, including publications, software, data sets, and instruments, are created in an iterative and interrelated fashion. Managing the relationships that exist among and between such resources is a central requirement for information systems. Practically, however, many scholarly resources exist online as discrete entities, divorced from other resources to which they are intimately related. A robust system for linking scholarly resources in a broad and sustainable fashion will have to navigate a set of complex and interrelated requirements. This paper presents results and insights from three different projects that focused on supporting more robust linkages among scholarly resources. The discussion details key technical and institutional challenges looking forward and backward in time across what might be considered to be a “relationship life cycle”: identifying, validating, characterizing, and preserving relationships. The goal of the paper is to help guide new research initiatives and operational services focused on integrating relationship information into the scholarly record.

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“…The persistent identifier (see recommendation #2) and available content negotiation options (see recommendation #9) may be provided in a HTTP link header (Van de Sompel & Nelson, 2015).…”

Section: Support Http Link Headersmentioning

confidence: 99%