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Federating heterogeneous digital libraries by metadata harvesting.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Federating heterogeneous digital libraries by metadata harvesting./
Author:	Liu, Xiaoming.
Description:	138 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-01, Section: B, page: 0288.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-01B.
Subject:	Computer Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3077281
ISBN:	0493977139

Federating heterogeneous digital libraries by metadata harvesting.
Liu, Xiaoming.

Federating heterogeneous digital libraries by metadata harvesting. - 138 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-01, Section: B, page: 0288.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Old Dominion University, 2002.

This dissertation studies the challenges and issues faced in federating heterogeneous digital libraries (DLs) by metadata harvesting. The objective of federation is to provide high-level services (e.g. transparent search across all DLs) on the collective metadata from different digital libraries. There are two main approaches to federate DLs: distributed searching approach and harvesting approach. As the distributed searching approach replies on executing queries to digital libraries in real time, it has problems with scalability. The difficulty of creating a distributed searching service for a large federation is the motivation behind Open Archives Initiatives Protocols for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). OAI-PMH supports both data providers (repositories, archives) and service providers. Service providers develop value-added services based on the information collected from data providers. Data providers are simply collections of harvestable metadata. This dissertation examines the application of the metadata harvesting approach in DL federations. It addresses the following problems: (1) Whether or not metadata harvesting provides a realistic and scalable solution for DL federation. (2) What is the status of and problems with current data provider implementations, and how to solve these problems. (3) How to synchronize data providers and service providers. (4) How to build different types of federation services over harvested metadata. (5) How to create a scalable and reliable infrastructure to support federation services. The work done in this dissertation is based on OAI-PMH, and the results have influenced the evolution of OAI-PMH. However, the results are not limited to the scope of OAI-PMH. Our approach is to design and build key services for metadata harvesting and to deploy them on the Web. Implementing a publicly available service allows us to demonstrate how these approaches are practical. The problems posed above are evaluated by performing experiments over these services.

ISBN: 0493977139Subjects--Topical Terms:

626642
Computer Science.

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