JISC

EEVL: the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, based at Heriot Watt University, was awarded funding under strand A of the JISC Metadata & Interoperability Projects Programme (05/03) to develop a pilot to explore the creation of an OAI-compliant metadata repository for a specialist publisher of ejournals, Inderscience Publishers Ltd. Inderscience currently publishes more than 80 scientific journals. Its publication, the “International Journal of Technology Management”, played a major role in developing the term “technology management”.

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the project was to test the feasibility of creating an OAI journal metadata repository at Inderscience Publishers Ltd, to allow future interoperability with JISC Information Environment services and projects, and to encourage publishers of bibliographic, image and other databases to make their metadata available for searching and/orharvesting.

The project had the following objectives:

• Creation of an OAI-compliant metadata repository
• Implementation of an OAI-PMH tool for harvesting the OAI repository
• Production of publisher-friendly guidelines, including practical examples, recommendations and details of useful tools and services
• Dissemination of results
• The feasibility of implementing the OpenURL standard in this context will be explored