Date & Time
- May 9th 15:00 UTC/GMT - 11:00 EDT
This call is a Community Forum call: Sharing best practices and challenges in the use of existing DSpace features
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Agenda: Community Forum Call: What is Happening with Harvested Content/Metadata, and How Do People Use It?
Preparing for the call
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Meeting notes
Popular harvesting and ingesting technologies in DSpace include the OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE and SWORD protocol.
Automated ingest
Throughout the call participants emphasised ways of automating ingest and harvesting in DSpace. Popular platforms from which content is harvested from, or ingested into DSpace (or the other way around) include Symplectic Elements, Biomed central and Proquest.
Workflows
In many cases participants decided to use workflows to assure content quality. Such workflows were primarily used when content is ingested in DSpace. In some cases attendees also had a workflow in the other direction. This is, before harvesters would be able to harvest content from their repository it would first have to go through an internal workflow in DSpace.
National Harvesters
Some participants had their repository harvested by a national platform, usually through the OAI-PH and OAI-ORE protocol. Such national harvesters were usually put into place for funding purpose, so governmental instances could check on the executed (funded) research.
Call Attendees
- Maureen Walsh (Ohio State University)
- Ignace Deroost (Atmire)
- Jose Carvalho (University of Minho)
- Marianne Reed (University of Kansas)
- Nelson Torres (University of Minho)
- Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri)
- Anne Lawrence (Virginia Tech)
- Susan Borda (Montana State University)
- Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto)
