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        OAI-related activities of OCLC Research featured in Roy Tennant's Library Journal column
        A recent Digital Libraries column in Library Journal by Roy Tennant features two projects of OCLC Researcher Jeff Young:&nbsp; the OAI Viewer, and Extensible Repository Resource Locators (ERRoLs) for OAI Identifiers.
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        February 19, 2004

        <P>Tennant is manager, eScholarship Web &amp; Services Design, California Digital Library, as well as founder and manager of the electronic discussion lists Web4Lib and Current Cites.&nbsp; His column focuses on the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), a standard developed within the digital library community for distributing metadata for digital objects.</P>
    <P>Although the standard was developed around metadata for papers in e-print repositories, Jeff Young has developed several innovative implementations, including use with an online thesaurus, digital-library usage logs, and&nbsp;the OpenURL registry. These implementations are described in an article in <EM>D-Lib Magazine</EM>, "Using the OAI-PMH...Differently" (July/August 2003).</P>
    <P>Building on these activities, Jeff has also developed the OAI Viewer, which allows users to browse through the metadata of any OAI-compliant repository using available OAI verbs, and ERRoLs, which are URLs to metadata, content, and services related to registered OAI repositories.</P>
        <P>Roy Tennant's article<BR>"The Expanding World of OAI." (InfoTech &gt; Digital Libraries column.) Library Journal, February 15, 2004.<BR><A href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA379271">http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA379271</A><BR>&nbsp;<BR>OAIViewer<BR><A href="http://errol.oclc.org/">http://errol.oclc.org/</A><BR>&nbsp;<BR>ERRoLs<BR><A href="http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oairesolver/default.htm">http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oairesolver/default.htm</A><BR>&nbsp;<BR>"Using the OAI-PMH...Differently."<BR>by Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeffrey A. Young, and Thomas B. Hickey.&nbsp; D-Lib Magazine 9,7/8(July/August 2003).<BR><A href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july03/young/07young.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july03/young/07young.html</A><BR>&nbsp;<BR>OCLC and the Open Archives Initiative<BR><A href="http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oai/default.htm">http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oai/default.htm</A><BR>&nbsp;<BR>Jeff Young<BR><A href="http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/young.htm">http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/young.htm</A><BR>&nbsp;<BR>Roy Tennant<BR><A href="http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/">http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/</A></P>

        Jeff Young
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        Bob Bolander
        bolander@oclc.org
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        Software Architect
        OCLC Research
        Communications &amp; Programs Manager
        OCLC Research