{"id":252,"date":"2006-09-06T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=252"},"modified":"2006-09-06T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T21:55:12","slug":"metaindex-clearly-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2006\/09\/metaindex-clearly-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaIndex &#8211; &#8216;Clearly a Success&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A presentation from Ari Rouvari and Ere Maijala &#8211; seemingly tireless developers from the National Library of Finland where they work on MetaLib.<\/p>\n<p>MetaIndex is a product to build index into MetaLib &#8211; it harvests metadata from other resources, and creates a searchable index on a central server. However, from the users perspective, it is just another federated search target for MetaLib to search.<\/p>\n<p>It relies on the OAI-PMH to harvest metadata, and you can use it when you can&#8217;t do a federated search using a standard protocol (like z39.50, or SRU\/SRW)<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of it in use are DOAJ and E-LIS, Electra, E-thesis local collections, Music collection of Pirkanmaa Polytechnic.<\/p>\n<p>In Finland they have a Nation wide unlimited license to for MetaIndex, so they can create as many as they want. However, they found that they had to be managed centrally.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, they have found the MetaIndex an extremely powerful, and felt that the importance of OAI-PMH and the ability to create indexes is comparable to OpenURL and SRU in terms of impact and importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A presentation from Ari Rouvari and Ere Maijala &#8211; seemingly tireless developers from the National Library of Finland where they work on MetaLib. MetaIndex is a product to build index into MetaLib &#8211; it harvests metadata from other resources, and creates a searchable index on a central server. However, from the users perspective, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-igelu-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}