MetaCombine Project
From Digital Innovations @ Emory Libraries
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|---|---|
| Grant Award: | $435,000 |
| Funding Agency: | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
| Start Date: | September 2003 |
| End Date: | October 2006 |
| Project URL: | http://MetaCombine.Org |
| Status: | Completed |
The MetaCombine Project conducted practical experimentation with improved techniques for organization and access to scholarly information via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) as well as the World Wide Web. In the course of this project, Emory explored combinations of information and services at various levels of abstraction: combined search of OAI and Web resources, combined semantic clusters of information, and combined digital library components acting as a whole. Hence, the project name: MetaCombine.
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[edit] Goals and Objectives
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[edit] Project Timeline
2005 Jan: Project Start
2006 Mar: Project Midpoint
2007 Nov: Project End
[edit] Project Details
MetaCombine is an effort to research and develop solutions to help better connect digital library resources, services, and collections. MetaCombine arose in response to a problem of lack of uniformity in shared metadata, especially via the OAI protocol, and lack of tools and frameworks to deal with this problem. The key ways MetaCombine pursued this goal were by exploring and developing technologies like text classification and semantic clustering to help organize ad hoc groupings of records, developing technologies like focused crawling to methodically discover desireable records on the web, developing visual and interactive tools for librarians and patrons to visualize and manipulate collections, and by developing a federated framework for digital library services to share enhanced records and the tools and technologies developed as digital library services.
