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# 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. A PDF version of the license is also available. (PDF:130K/3pp.)

Please contact Jeff Young for any status/update of this work.

## 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

- XTCat
- OAICat (Demo)
- OAIHarvester
- NDLTD

## Internal related projects

- EOR Toolkit
- Pears Database
- Gwen Search Engine
- ZNG: Z3950 Next Generation

## External related projects

- NDLTD
- OAI

## Standards related links

- NDLTD
- DCMI
- OAI
- RDF