Day: July 31, 2008

Like UBC, UW faculty hasn’t got to buy in. ( Blue Angels just flew by and made the noise. ) Librarians try to help Graduate School on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Relevant work is being handled by committees and subject librarians.

About 80 web authors across the system, look and feel is handled by the system, although a variety of content management systems are being used, Plone, Drupal, Moddle, Joomla, iSite.
Then Jennifer showed us her Facebook with bunch of Web2.0 integration: RSS Feed (of new Japanese arrivals), Del.icio.us and Flickr and Flickrvision.

OpenURL is transferring the information about an item from the information provider via a Link- Server. OpenURL can embed CrossRef DOI’s, and CrossRef DOI’s can be used to send OpenURL to libraries. This helps publishers and libraries collaborate to optimize the services for the ultimate consumers of their information.

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) offers a simple technical option for catalogue and repository services to make their metadata available to other services. The OAI framework distinguishes between data providers and service providers. Data providers have metadata that they wish to make available, service provider grabs metadata regularly from data provider, but original full-text sits in the repository.

The basic concept of image and the workflow of scanning is covered by Prof. Chen’s PPT.