"Oregon Digital Library Debuts, Offering Single Search Portal"
From a Library Journal Article by Lynn Blumenstein:
The Oregon Digital Library Project (ODLP) has debuted, offering a single site to search all of the public digital collections in the state.
Currently in a one-month pilot period, the portal includes material from 18 collections, and is in feedback mode, according to Terry Reese, Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services, Valley Library, Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis. The ODLP is also seeking more digital partners.
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ODLP uses the OAI-PMH standard (Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) as one of the methods to harvest metadata for indexing from other collections. The standard is used in a lot of library repository software (CONTENTdm, DSpace, BePress, etc.), said Reese. ODLP also includes support for some custom APIs (application programming interfaces) to allow non-OAI-PMH harvestable materials to be gathered as well.
Direct to a List of Collections Available via ODLP as of Today
See Also: “Oregon Launches Open Data Web Site”
This is a different project vs. ODLP.
Filed under: Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Resources
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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