Webinar on Repository Interoperability and Harvesting

The webinar on repository interoperability and harvesting is hosted by the LIBSENSE Working Group on Infrastructure (for OA journals, repositories, and discovery services).

Context

The need for critical information sharing in Africa is vital to its growth and development for community-based solutions and transcending the continent’s social and cultural impact. Surveys show that there are very few national repositories harvesting metadata from the IR of their institutions and virtually no regional harvester on the continent. This webinar will look at the few examples of harvesting that have emerged from the continent and discuss the issues of repository interoperability as a path towards effective harvesting and institutional/national/regional repository development.

The webinar will discuss harvesting approaches, metadata cleaning and common approaches to describing resources in repositories and metadata/data exchange and what roles NRENs play. We will consider the example of the draft LIBSENSE [Metadata]/Data Exchange Model Agreement. We will also look at the role of the different stakeholders in contributing to the harvesting of data and what roles NRENs play in contributing to the infrastructure required to implement a successful and interoperable harvester.

Objectives

Participants will

• Gain insights into the methodologies and workflow approaches for repositories metadata/data harvesting based on the use cases and presentations by the speakers
• Benefit from the roles and contributions NRENs play in the provision of a national harvester
• Define potential roadmaps for national and regional data harvesting of repositories in Africa.

Moderators: Bebe Chang and Owen Iyoha, Infrastructure WG Co-Chairs

Target Audience: Repository managers, librarians, researchers, NREN operators, Interested LIBSENSE community members

Date: Monday, 26 October 2020.   Time:  14:00 UTC.  Duration: 90 minutes

Recording: View here

Agenda