Abstract
Metadata harvesting is an increasingly popular model of interaction between the mutually autonomous parties of medium, medium-large federations of digital library services. With a harvesting protocol, in particular, resource descriptions locally available at each party can be served to remote applications for the implementation of federated services, such as resource discovery. This article offers a systematic explanation of the success of the model and its standard implementations in the context of current initiatives for national and international federations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 255-258 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Library Review |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2004 |
Keywords
- metadata
- repositories
- open access