ALCME: Advanced Library Collection Management Environment
Goal
The goal of ALCME is to create a set of open-source tools to seamlessly integrate the components needed to build a distributed library collection management system. These tools support such services as repository interfaces, metadata harvesting, and authority control.
This software is available under the OCLC Research Public License.
Status
- The XTCat OAI repository is operational with a complete set of theses and dissertations extracted from OCLC's WorldCat database.
- The OAICat OAI protocol web appliation is available for download and evaluation.
- OAIHarvester and OAICat conform to the OAI-PMH 2.0 standard specification and are available for CVS access.
News
| 30-31 May, 1 June 2002 | The Fifth International Symposium On Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
| 19 September 2001 | OAI Provider Workshop |
| 14 August 2001 | OAIHarvester now handles 503 retry-after headers properly |
| 24-28 June 2001 | JCDL Panel Discussion: The Open Archives Initiative: Perspectives on Metadata Harvesting |
| 15 March 2001 | NDLTD Authority Linking Proposal published |
| 26 February 2001 | ALCME Presentation at the OAI Open Day for Europe |
| 9-10 January 2001 | ETD Standards Meeting |
| October 2000 | ALCME project started |
Project links
Internal related projects
- EOR Toolkit
- Pears Database
- Gwen Search Engine
- ZNG: Z3950 Next Generation