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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • ResourceSync Specification Draft Published for Comment

    ResourceSync -- a joint effort of NISO and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) team with work funded by the Sloan Foundation -- has published a draft specification that I urge members of the library technology community to look at. Building on the OAI-PMH strategies for synchronizing metadata, this project is modern web …

     Posted on  February 04, 2013
     and last updated February 04, 2013
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Thumbgrabber: a metadata augmentation tool

    Blogging on Peer Review ResearchIn reading a background paper for the American Social History Online portal, I was reacquainted with a paper by Muriel Foulonneau, Thomas Habing and Tim Cole from UIUC called "Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services." ((Foulonneau, M., Habing, T.G., Cole, T.W. (2006 …

     Posted on  April 29, 2008
     and last updated April 29, 2008
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Article-Level OAI-PMH Harvest Available from DOAJ

    Earlier this year the DOAJ began offering a new schema for registered articles that significantly improves the value of OAI-PMH harvested article content. Prior to this addition the only scheme available was Dublin Core, which as a metadata schema for describing article content is woefully inadequate. (Dublin Core, of course …

     Posted on  July 11, 2007
     and last updated July 11, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • A Report on Namespaces Used by OAI-PMH Repositories

    I had a need for a survey of the metadata namespaces used by OAI-PMH repositories, so I wrote up a quick shell script and XSLT style sheet to parse through the list of Registered Data Providers at the OpenArchives.org website. The results of this effort are pretty interesting. Some …

     Posted on  March 20, 2007
     and last updated March 20, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time