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Research : Activities : Infrastructure and Standards Support

Infrastructure and Standards Support

Our work here focuses on participating with research institutions in the development of needed architecture and standards, supporting their adoption and finding appropriate venues for their sustenance. Our objective is to create an efficient environment in support of the declared activities listed below.

 

Influence Proposed EAC Standard  RLG Partnership icon (RP)

Facilitate refinement, publication and dissemination of EAC.

info URI Registry  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

The “info” URI Registry was set up on behalf of NISO to identify and describe registered “info” URIs.

OAICat  ResearchWorks icon (RW) Software icon (SW)

OAICat is a Java Servlet implementation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) v2.0.

PREMIS Maintenance Activity and Editorial Committee 

OCLC Research participates in both the PREMIS Maintenance Activity and Editorial Committee. The Maintenance Activity is responsible for planning, organizing, and coordinating work and activities related to the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata. The PREMIS Editorial Committee has specific responsibility for managing the Data Dictionary, including supporting its use and coordinating future updates and revisions.

PURL  ResearchWorks icon (RW) Software icon (SW)

PURLs (Persistent Uniform Resource Locators) are Web addresses that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure.

SRW/U  Software icon (SW)

The SRW/U Open Source project offers software that implements both the SRW Web Service and the SRU REST model interface to databases. Included are interfaces that support DSpace and Lucene implementation and OCLC's Pears database.

ResearchWorks icon (RW)Some of the activities listed here have prototypes or demonstrations you can explore and play with. You can find a list of just those hands-on activities in ResearchWorks.

Software icon (SW)A few of these activities have generated software that you can download and build upon. Go to our software page for a list of only those activities.

RLG Partnership icon (RP)The RLG Partnership has sponsored the activities with this mark.