ISSUES (DP and SP)

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ISSUES (DP and SP)

• Kat Hagedorn
• OAI Best Practices Meeting
• at CDL July 29, 2004

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the usual suspects

• Consistently applied metadata within repository
• Consistent interpretation of metadata format
  standard across repositories
• Indication of specific schema info, e.g., LCSH
• Need to categorize how? esp. with large amount
  of data

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sample date values

• ltdategt2-12-01lt/dategt
• ltdategt2002-01-01lt/dategt
• ltdategt0000-00-00lt/dategt
• ltdategt1822lt/dategt
• ltdategtbetween 1827 and 1833lt/dategt
• ltdategt18--?lt/dategt
• ltdategtNovember 13, 1947lt/dategt
• ltdategtSEP 1958lt/dategt
• ltdategt235 bcelt/dategt
• ltdategtSummer, 1948lt/dategt

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sample subject values

• ltsubjectgt30,51,52lt/subjectgt
• ltsubjectgt1852, Apr. 22. Everitt Judson, letter
  to Philuta Judson.lt/subjectgt
• ltsubjectgtSlavery--United States--Controversial
  literaturelt/subjectgt
• ltsubjectgtview of interior with John Henry
  sculpturelt/subjectgt
• ltsubjectgtParticles (Nuclear physics) --
  Research.lt/subjectgt

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the unknown suspects

• Need sets of all types
• Rights info, incl. restricted
• Deleted records
• Character conversion errors
• Granularity of records

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tools

• Harvesters
• UIUCs REAP, OCLCs harvester2, myOAI, Ed
  Summers NOH, homegrown
• mod_perl and Apache
• Validation
• Filtering
• Appropriate DP software
• Dspace, Eprints

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strategies

• CLEARINGHOUSE
• Discovery
• Defunct repositories
• Moribund repositories
• Use of non-DC records
• Error notification to DPs

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