The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Open Archives Initiative
Metadata Harvesting Project

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Search UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials

OAI Software Available

Project Information

Presentations & Publications

Staff/Contacts

Suggested Readings

Reports

Final Report (July 2003)

Status Report (February 2003)

Interim Report (August 30, 2002)

Status Report for Quarters 3 and 4

Status Report for Quarters 1 and 2

Providing Metadata (October 2001)

Project Proposal (April 2001)

Collaboration with the University of Michigan (April 2001)

Repository Information

Harvested Collections

Types of Resources Harvested

White Papers

Harvester Architecture White Paper (2001)

Analysis of Dublin Core Use by Data Provider (2002) - Word file

Normalization of Type Element (2002)

Normalization of Format Element (2002)

Normalization of Temporal Information in Date/Coverage Elements (2002)

Usefulness of OAI-Enabled Search Portal to Cultural Heritage Material for K-12 Educators (2003)

Stylesheets and other scripts

XSLT and other scripts for dealing with Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids, such as transformation into HTML or into Dublin Core (DC) records. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/uilib-ead/.

Listserv

If you would like to learn more about the UIUC OAI Metadata Harvesting Project, we invite you to join our listserv, oailist-l. We use this listserv as a way to communicate what progress we are making and any new developments that are occurring. You can subscribe to the listserv by sending the following in the body of a message to listserv@listserv.uiuc.edu: subscribe oailist-l yourfullname .