Saturday, July 31, 2004

Nation's First City-Wide WiFi Network Completed [Slashdot:] 8:45:42 PM      Google It!.

On some OAI service providers. Gerry McKiernan, Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship, a PPT presentation from the WILSWorld Conference 2004 (Madison, Wisconsin, July 27-28, 2004). Abstract: "The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. There are two classes of participants in the OAI-PMH framework: Data Providers and Service Providers. Data Providers administer systems that support the OAI-PMH as a means of exposing metadata from digital collections or repositories; while Service Providers use metadata harvested via the OAI-PMH as a basis for building value-added services. In this presentation we will profile several major OAI-PMH Data and Service Providers, and describe and discuss their innovative content, features, and functionalities." [Open Access News] 9:11:31 AM      Google It!.