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A data provider maintains one or
more repositories (web servers) that supports the OAI-PMH as a means of
exposing metadata.
(Definition quoted from the Glossary in the
OAI for Beginners, the Open Archives Forum online tutorial)
Dublin Core (DC) is a metadata format defined on the basis of
international consensus. The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set defines fifteen
elements for simple resource description and discovery, all of which are
recommended, and none of which are mandatory. DC has been extended with
further optional elements, element qualifiers and vocabulary terms.
(Definition quoted from the Glossary in the
OAI for Beginners, the Open Archives Forum online tutorial)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the
development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad
range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include
consensus-driven working groups, global workshops, conferences, standards
liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata
standards and practices.
(Definition quoted from the Glossary in the
OAI for Beginners, the Open Archives Forum online tutorial)
Working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials that are not controlled by commercial publishers. Also spelled Gray literature.
In OAI-PMH a harvester is a client application issuing OAI-PMH requests.
(Definition quoted from the Glossary in the
OAI for Beginners, the Open Archives Forum online tutorial)
In the OAI context, harvesting refers specifically to the gathering
together of metadata from a number of distributed repositories into a
combined data store.
(Definition quoted from the Glossary in the
OAI for Beginners, the Open Archives Forum online tutorial)
A company which provides other companies or individuals with access to,
or presence on, the Internet.
(Definition quoted from FOLDOC-
Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
OAI is an initiative to develop and promote interoperability standards
that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.
(Definition quoted from the Glossary in the
OAI for Beginners, the Open Archives Forum online tutorial)
OAI-PMH is a lightweight harvesting protocol for sharing metadata
between services.
(Definition quoted from the Glossary in the
OAI for Beginners, the Open Archives Forum online tutorial)
Recognition of printed or written characters by a computer. Special
software is available to perform OCR.
(Definition quoted from FOLDOC-
Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
A universal file format that preserves the fonts, images, graphics, and
layout of any source document, regardless of the application and platform
used to create it.
(Definition quoted from the Adobe Reader
website.)
A service provider issues OAI-PMH requests to data providers and uses
the metadata as a basis for building value-added services. A Service
Provider in this manner is "harvesting" the metadata exposed by Data
Providers
(Definition quoted from the Glossary in the
OAI for Beginners, the Open Archives Forum online tutorial)
A Static Repository Gateway provides intermediation for one or more
Static Repositories. It assigns each such Static Repository a unique
Static Repository base URL, all with a common Static Repository Gateway
URL prefix, and thereby exposes each individual Static Repository as an
individual OAI-PMH Repository.
(Definition quoted from the Implementation
Guidelines for the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting).
A file format used for still-image bitmaps, stored in tagged fields.
(Definition quoted from FOLDOC-
Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
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