STARGATE cluster summary
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STARGATE
The STARGATE project (http://www.cdlr.strath.ac.uk) is exploring the use of static repositories as a means of exposing publisher metadata to OAI-based disclosure, discovery and alerting services within the JISC Information Environment and beyond. The project's primary aim is to examine the use of static repositories to lower the technical barriers to the implementation of OAI-compliant repositories, thereby enabling small publishers of electronic resources to participate more readily in OAI-based disclosure and delivery services. In doing so, it is seeking to improve the retrieval of collections of articles from the same journal or issue and so to also address the problem that often the URL of the ‘published’ version of an article is less visible in OAI-based services Static repositories and static repository gateways are a development of the OAI-PMH specification that makes participation in networks of data and service providers even simpler. To create these static repositories the project is capitalising on existing metadata that the publishers have created and made available in some form (for example webpage meta-tags). The project is working with four publishers in the Library and Information Science domain to explore the use of OAI static repositories
- Journal of Digital Information http://jodi.tamu.edu/
- Information Research http://informationr.net/ir/
- Library and Information Research http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/lir.htm
- Information Scotland http://www.slainte.org.uk/publications/serials/infoscot/contents.html
Questions:
- What benefits (and other effects) would the greater visibility of publishers’ metadata have for the information environment?
- How might metadata records across different repositories be linked by a higher-level service (publisher’s version to author pre-print and vice-versa)?
- What other collections might be usefully exposed via the static repository approach?
- Who should run a static repository gateway service for publishers?
