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Metadata Harvesting From Selected Institutional Digital Repositories in India: A Model to Build a Central Repository

Abstract

This paper tried to discuss the phenomena for designing and developing a central metadata harvesting repository from selected Indian Institutional Digital Repositories. The metadata Standard format used is the Dublin Core Metadata. For metadata harvesting from the IDRs we used the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting standard version 2.0. The study primarily tried to focus on building a central indexed repository. The repository is configured using Dspace version 4.1 and harvesting is done using its user interface. The number of digital repositories is increasing enormously around the world. With reference to DOAR in India there are presently 68 digital repositories. User’s want relevant information according to their query with minimum interval of time. Henceforth they compled to search the individual repositories for getting his or her desire documents. This study tries to solve the mentioned problem of “searching individual repositories” by building a central indexed repository and providing a single search dialog box. In order to allow users to search efficiently from various institutional digital repositories we have configure a central indexed repository which will harvest metadata as well as Bitstream only if ORE support is configured in the data provider server. Metadata harvesting is the process of aggregating metadata from various data providers. Then DSpace service uses these aggregated metadata and apache SOLR indexes them and finally provides a resource discovery solution to the library patrons.

Soumen Teli

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