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Next meeting: Revealing Shareable Metadata for Complex Research Objects

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Jennifer A. Liss

This month, we’ll be thinking about large-scale, metadata sharing. Join us for a discussion about exposing metadata for complex research objects, such as datasets, to metadata harvesters. All are welcome to participate!

DATE: Tuesday, February 18
TIME: 9:30—10:30am
PLACE: Wells Library Room 043
TOPIC: Indecent Exposure: Revealing Shareable Metadata for Complex Research Objects
MODERATOR: Julie Hardesty

RESOURCES YOU MIGHT CONSULT

Opening up data as “data packets” on servers:

  • Pollock, R. (2013,  July 2). “Git (and Github) for Data | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog.” Retrieved from http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/02/git-and-github-for-data/
  • Gandrud, C. (2012, June 13). Data on GitHub: The easy way to make your data available. R-bloggers. Retrieved from http://www.r-bloggers.com/data-on-github-the-easy-way-to-make-your-data-available/
  • Indiana University Libraries. (2013 October 17). Tei_text: Free-for-all repository of TEI and plain text files for you (to do cool stuff) provided by the Digital Collections Services Group at the Indiana University Libraries under the CC BY-NC 3.0 License. GitHub. Retrieved from https://github.com/iulibdcs/tei_text

Overview (and more!) on OAI-PMH:

  • Lagoze, C., Sompel, H., Nelson, M. & Warner, S. (2002 June 14). Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting – V.2.0. Retrieved from http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
    • NOTE: for the 20 minute version, read 1. Introduction and 2. Definitions and Concepts

Examples of library web service APIs:

  • United States National Library of Medicine. APIs. (n.d.). http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/
    • NOTE: gives super-brief info of what APIs are; the Voyager ILS supports an app that allows for searching NLM MARC records via the NLM API
  • Digital Public Library of America. API. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://dp.la/info/developers/codex/

What’s microdata and why it’s important:

  • Dean, R & Green, J. (2013 July 11). What to do when Google ignores your Fedora objects [PDF document]. Retrieved from http://or2013.net/sessions/what-do-when-google-ignores-your-fedora-objects
Posted on February 11, 2014February 19, 2014 by Author Jennifer A. Liss Posted in Categories Housekeeping | Tagged: Tags search engines, shareable metadata, web metadata

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