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Indexing

Data, repositories and Google

7 March, 2008 | in Blogs

In a post last year, Peter Murray Rust criticised DSpace as a place to keep data:"The search engines locate content. Try searching for NSC383501 (the entry for a molecule from the NCI) and you’ll find: DSpace at Cambridge: NSC383501"But the actual data itself (some of which is textual metadata) is not accessible to search engines so isn’t indexed. So if you know how to look for it through the ID, fine. If you don’t you won’t. [...]

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Information Retrieval

OJAX

OJAX provides a highly dynamic AJAX-based user interface to a federated search service for OAI-PMH compatible repository metadata. OJAX is simple, non-threatening but powerful.
http://ojax.sourceforge.net/
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UKOLN Interoperability Focus

Interoperability Focus is a national activity, jointly funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils and Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. Based within UKOLN, Interoperability Focus works closely with other staff on a range of issues including metadata, distributed systems and public library networking.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/
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Interoperability

OJAX

OJAX provides a highly dynamic AJAX-based user interface to a federated search service for OAI-PMH compatible repository metadata. OJAX is simple, non-threatening but powerful.
http://ojax.sourceforge.net/
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GovTalk (UK)

The purpose of this site is to enable the Public Sector, Industry and other interested participants to work together to develop and agree policies and standards for e-government.
http://interim.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govtalk.aspx
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UKOLN Interoperability Focus

Interoperability Focus is a national activity, jointly funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils and Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. Based within UKOLN, Interoperability Focus works closely with other staff on a range of issues including metadata, distributed systems and public library networking.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/
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Ontologies

Protégé Ontology Editor

Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework. The Protégé platform supports two main ways of modelling ontologies via the Protégé-Frames and Protégé-OWL editors. Protégé ontologies can be exported into a variety of formats including RDF(S), OWL, and XML Schema.
http://protege.stanford.edu/
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GovTalk (UK)

The purpose of this site is to enable the Public Sector, Industry and other interested participants to work together to develop and agree policies and standards for e-government.
http://interim.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govtalk.aspx
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ICSTI - International Council for Scientific and Technical Information

ICSTI, The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, offers a unique forum for interaction between organizations that create, disseminate and use scientific and technical information. ICSTI's mission cuts across scientific and technical disciplines, as well as international borders, to give member organizations the benefit of a truly global community.
http://www.icsti.org
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SKOS Core

SKOS stands for Simple Knowledge Organisation System. SKOS Core is a model used to describe 'concept' schemas and the relationships between them. For example, glossaries, thesauri, controlled vocabularies. Functionality:  Provides a framework for expressing knowledge organisation systems in a machine-understandable way. Level of Expertise:  Good understanding of the concept of ontologies and descriptive schemas, such as RDF.
http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide
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