Implantación de la Open Archives Initiative en España

Main Authors: Peset, Fernanda, Ferrer-Sapena, Antonia
Format: Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf
Bahasa: es
Terbitan: Information Research , 2008
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Online Access: http://eprints.rclis.org/12666/1/Implantaci%C3%B3n_de_la_Open_Arc_pub_2008.pdf
http://eprints.rclis.org/12666/
Daftar Isi:
  • Introduction. The article approaches the situation in Spain of actions related to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), used for the harvesting and diffusion of metadata for documents. The type of digital libraries, under this protocol, is experiencing worldwide development with institutional repositories developed mainly by academic organizations. Method. International inventories have been consulted and have contrasted the data through two types of surveys. Analysis. Studying the state of implantation of OAI-PMH in Spain. Conclusions. The situation in 2006 was encouraging in terms of number of projects, but less so in terms of the amount of stored data. It is necessary to remedy the omissions and errors in the official international registers and measures are required in Spain for coordination to enable profitable investments. Finally, the lack of studies such as presented here hinders the understanding of this area and therefore the application of indicators to assess the dissemination of science through open archives.