Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": A retrospective on the NSDL experience

@misc{citeulike:732822, abstract = {Over three years ago, the Core Integration team of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) implemented a digital library based on metadata aggregation using Dublin Core and OAI-PMH. The initial expectation was that such low-barrier technologies would be relatively easy to automate and administer. While this architectural choice permitted rapid deployment of a production NSDL, our three years of experience have contradicted our original expectations of easy automation and low people cost. We have learned that alleged "low-barrier" standards are often harder to deploy than expected. In this paper we report on this experience and comment on the general cost, the functionality, and the ultimate effectiveness of this architecture.}, author = {Lagoze, Carl and Krafft, Dean and Cornwell, Tim and Dushay, Naomi and Eckstrom, Dean and Saylor, John }, citeulike-article-id = {732822}, eprint = {cs.DL/0601125}, keywords = {archive, digital, library, nsdl}, month = {Jan}, posted-at = {2006-07-03 12:31:10}, priority = {2}, title = {Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": A retrospective on the NSDL experience}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0601125}, year = {2006} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:732822 L3 - citeulike-article-id:732822 TI - Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": A retrospective on the NSDL experience N2 - Over three years ago, the Core Integration team of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) implemented a digital library based on metadata aggregation using Dublin Core and OAI-PMH. The initial expectation was that such low-barrier technologies would be relatively easy to automate and administer. While this architectural choice permitted rapid deployment of a production NSDL, our three years of experience have contradicted our original expectations of easy automation and low people cost. We have learned that alleged "low-barrier" standards are often harder to deploy than expected. In this paper we report on this experience and comment on the general cost, the functionality, and the ultimate effectiveness of this architecture. KW - archive KW - digital KW - library KW - nsdl AU - Lagoze, Carl AU - Krafft, Dean AU - Cornwell, Tim AU - Dushay, Naomi AU - Eckstrom, Dean AU - Saylor, John PY - 2006/Jan/30/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0601125 ER -