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About
The
original Kepler concept is based on and evolved from the Open
Archives Initiative (OAI). OAI is a framework to enable
interoperability among consenting digital libraries. The
framework divides the world into service and data providers.
Digital libraries that are data providers agree to expose their
metadata in a standard way and enable service providers to
harvest the metadata using OAI-PMH (OAI - Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting).
The
Kepler concept is to give any user by means of a self-contained,
self-installing software system the ability to have a personal,
portable data provider or archivelet. An archivelet has the
tools to let the user publish a report as simply as it is to
post to a website yet have a fully OAI-compliant digital library
that can be harvested by a service provider.
In
this web site we document and make code available from an NSF
supported project to develop Kepler for communities that wish to
tailor their publication and search services and enforce
configurable standards. Our long-term vision is to provide tools
and software for communities to easily deploy digital libraries
that are customized for their needs, can be populated, managed,
and are "open" for development of future services.
We
define a Communal Digital Library as a federation of smaller
group based digital libraries. In our model, a community
represents users that wish to share digital objects of common
interest. A group is a sub-set of community users that share the
same publication and management process. For example, a
department dealing with water pollution in a research laboratory
is a group and several such groups in other laboratories and
universities form a community.
The current version of Kepler is V1.2.
Old
Dominion University Digital Library Research Group
kepler@list.odu.edu
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Funded by National
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