Project Suggestion: NCSTRL OAI
Title: Help shift NCSTRL to 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)
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