harvesting
January 21, 2009 :
Podcast: Putting Local Collections “in the Flow”
This is Rice Majors, product manager for Encore Harvesting Services. Libraries are using OAI-compliant harvesting to present their local collections in Encore right along with catalog search results, putting these important resources “in the flow” of their users. In this podcast, Spenser Thompson and I talk about Encore Harvesting Services and how one […]
Don’t you love browsing around a library? I do. Maybe it’s one of the reasons you wound up working in a library. You may even stumble upon something you didn’t know the library had or a special room with a unique collection. The more inclusive a general library search is online, the more opportunities for […]
Back in July, I attended a wonderful workshop for library folks called Metadata for You and Me: http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/mym/. Metadata for You & Me is a collaboration between the University of Illinois Library and Indiana University.
I attended an all-day version of this workshop at Stanford University and found it to be an excellent presentation in terms […]
In mid-June, I made a visit to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I gave an Encore launch presentation to library staff. UNL has been a development partner with Innovative this summer to introduce harvesting of OAI-compliant databases to Encore—we’re pretty excited about this, as UNL has such a rich portfolio of digital resources to harvest, […]
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