Project BRICKS aims to build a Europe-wide distributed Digital Library
in the field of Cultural Heritage. Each member organisation will run a node
in the network (BRICKS node or BNode) and make its content available to the
entire network. Content described in diverse Metadata standards can be searched
with a unique query. Unlike other Digital Libraries, BRICKS is open and expandable,
both on the organizational and the technical level. The aim of this paper is to
demonstrate that the technical effort of joining the BRICKS network is minimal
compared with the potential benefits of joining the BRICKS community.
This paper focuses on the BRICKS importer component, which is based on the
Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). After a short overview
of the architecture of the importer and an outline of OAI-PMH, we list the technical
requirements of the importer give a detailed list of the steps an institution
take to join BRICKS. We also present first results obtained with our importer
component.
%0 Journal Article
%1 hecht2005
%A Hecht, Robert
%A Haslhofer, Bernhard
%D 2005
%K bricks digital library oai pmh
%T Joining the BRICKS Network - A Piece of Cake
%U http://dme.researchstudio.at/publications/2005/Joining_the_BRICKS_Network_-_A_Piece_of_Cake.pdf
%X Project BRICKS aims to build a Europe-wide distributed Digital Library
in the field of Cultural Heritage. Each member organisation will run a node
in the network (BRICKS node or BNode) and make its content available to the
entire network. Content described in diverse Metadata standards can be searched
with a unique query. Unlike other Digital Libraries, BRICKS is open and expandable,
both on the organizational and the technical level. The aim of this paper is to
demonstrate that the technical effort of joining the BRICKS network is minimal
compared with the potential benefits of joining the BRICKS community.
This paper focuses on the BRICKS importer component, which is based on the
Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). After a short overview
of the architecture of the importer and an outline of OAI-PMH, we list the technical
requirements of the importer give a detailed list of the steps an institution
take to join BRICKS. We also present first results obtained with our importer
component.
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abstract = {Project BRICKS aims to build a Europe-wide distributed Digital Library
in the field of Cultural Heritage. Each member organisation will run a node
in the network (BRICKS node or BNode) and make its content available to the
entire network. Content described in diverse Metadata standards can be searched
with a unique query. Unlike other Digital Libraries, BRICKS is open and expandable,
both on the organizational and the technical level. The aim of this paper is to
demonstrate that the technical effort of joining the BRICKS network is minimal
compared with the potential benefits of joining the BRICKS community.
This paper focuses on the BRICKS importer component, which is based on the
Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). After a short overview
of the architecture of the importer and an outline of OAI-PMH, we list the technical
requirements of the importer give a detailed list of the steps an institution
take to join BRICKS. We also present first results obtained with our importer
component.},
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author = {Hecht, Robert and Haslhofer, Bernhard},
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timestamp = {2007-04-11T13:27:03.000+0200},
title = {Joining the BRICKS Network - A Piece of Cake},
url = {http://dme.researchstudio.at/publications/2005/Joining_the_BRICKS_Network_-_A_Piece_of_Cake.pdf},
year = 2005
}