Implementing enhanced OAI-PMH requirements for Europeana
Authors: Houssos, Nikos 
Kapidakis, Sarantos 
Koulouris, Alexandros 
Stamatis, Kostas 
Banos, Vaggelis 
Garoufallou, Emmanouel 
Issue Date: 26-Sep-2011
Conference: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 
Book: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital LibrarieS 
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume: 6966 LNCS
Keywords: DSpace Plug-in, Europeana, EuropeanaLocal, Europena Semantic Elements, Information integration, Interoperability, Metadata harvesting, OAI-PMH, Tools
Abstract: 
Europeana has put in a stretch many known procedures in digital libraries, imposing requirements difficult to be implemented in many small institutions, often without dedicated systems support personnel. Although there are freely available open source software platforms that provide most of the commonly needed functionality such as OAI-PMH support, the migration from legacy software may not be easy, possible or desired. Furthermore, advanced requirements like selective harvesting according to complex criteria are not widely supported. To accommodate these needs and help institutions contribute their content to Europeana, we developed a series of tools. For the majority of small content providers that are running DSpace, we developed a DSpace plug-in, to convert and augment the Dublin Core metadata according to Europeana ESE requirements. For sites with different software, incompatible with OAI-PMH, we developed wrappers enabling repeatable generation and harvesting of ESE-compatible metadata via OAI-PMH. In both cases, the system is able to select and harvest only the desired metadata records, according to a variety of configuration criteria of arbitrary complexity. We applied our tools to providers with sophisticated needs, and present the benefits they achieved. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
ISBN: 9783642244681
ISSN: 16113349
03029743
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_40
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/330
Type: Conference Paper
Department: Department of Archival, Library and Information Studies 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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