Project Suggestion: NCSTRL OAI

• Number of people: 2-3
• Goal: Save NCSTRL, and move it forward to OAI technology
• Contact information: Those outside Virginia Tech now working on this include Jim French (french@virginia.edu) at UVA, Kurt Maly (maly@cs.odu.edu) at ODU, and Paul Jones (pjones@metalab.unc.edu) at UNC-CH. The Cornell team formerly coordinating NCSTRL is led by Carl Lagoze (lagoze@cs.cornell.edu), who will help as needed, but hopefully minimally. A knowledgeable local person is Hussein Suleman (hussein@vt.edu). Interested in the support of CS TRs (Computer Science Technical Reports) is Professor Watson (ltw@cs.vt.edu). The instructor has served on the NCSTRL working group and is part of the team now working to save NCSTRL. Finally, Priya Shivakuman (pshivaku@vt.edu) is serving as GRA working on this during Fall 2001.
• Required background: familiarity with PERL and similar tools
• Description: For background, please study http://www.ncstrl.org. NCSTRL services at Cornell, building upon the Dienst software, will be shut down 9/31. A team is working to upgrade the technology to that in the Open Archives Initiative. Data also must be saved from the roughly 130 existing sites. This will be a team effort with at least 3 other universities. Many different tasks are involved, so there is ample room for contributors.
• Students involved: The following students are working on this project:
  • Aarthi Sundararajan (asundara@vt.edu)
  • Priyadarshani Shivakumar (pshivaku@vt.edu)
  • Padmapriya Kandhadai (pkandhad@vt.edu)