Dublin Core Metadata Harvested Through OAI-PMH

Authors

Amy S. Jackson
Myung-Ja Han
Kurt Groetsch
Megan Mustafoff
Timothy W. Cole

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Abstract

The introduction in 2001 of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) increased interest in and awareness of metadata quality issues relevant to digital library interoperability and the use of harvested metadata to build "union catalogs" of digital information resources. Practitioners have offered wide-ranging advice to metadata authors and have suggested metrics useful for measuring the quality of shareable metadata. Is there evidence of changes in metadata practice in response to such advice and/or as a result of an increased awareness of the importance of metadata interoperability? This paper looks at metadata records created over a six-year period that have been harvested by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and reports on quantitative and qualitative analyses of changes observed over time in shareable metadata quality.

Publisher

Haworth Press

Publication Title

Journal of Library Metadata

Volume

8

Issue

1

First Page

5

Last Page

21

Language (ISO)

English

Keywords

Metadata, OAI-PMH, Digital Collections, IMLS Digital Collections and Content

Recommended Citation

Jackson, Amy S.; Myung-Ja Han; Kurt Groetsch; Megan Mustafoff; and Timothy W. Cole. "Dublin Core Metadata Harvested Through OAI-PMH." Journal of Library Metadata , 1 (2008): 5-21. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ulls_fsp/80

Comments

IMLS National Leadership Grant LG-02-02-0281