Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:07:07 -0500 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@iastate.edu> Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the availability of the revised version of my PowerPoint presentation from the recently concluded WiLSWorld 2004 Conference [ http://www.wils.wisc.edu/events/wworld04/ ] _Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship_ "The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. There are two classes of participants in the OAI-PMH framework: Data Providers and Service Providers. Data Providers administer systems that support the OAI-PMH as a means of exposing metadata from digital collections or repositories; while Service Providers use metadata harvested via the OAI-PMH as a basis for building value-added services. In this presentation we will profile several major OAI-PMH Data and Service Providers, and describe and discuss their innovative content, features, and functionalities." The REVISED and CORRECTED presentation has been self-archived at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OpenContent.ppt ] BTW:This is a LARGE file [11MB] and Long Presentation [130+ Slides] For your Late-Friday-Afternoon, Late-July Reading-and -Viewing-Pleasure! Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan OAI-Compliant Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "The Revolution Will NOT be Blogged"