Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2005

Publication Title

NASA Technical Memorandum: 213515

Pages

1-146

Abstract

The author performed a variety of research, development and consulting tasks for NASA Langley Research Center in the area of digital libraries (DLs) and supporting technologies, such as the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). In particular, the development focused on the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) and its transition from a distributed searching model to one that uses the OAI-PMH. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an international consortium focused on furthering the interoperability of DLs through the use of "metadata harvesting". The OAI-PMH version of NTRS went into public production on April 28, 2003. Since that time, it has been extremely well received. In addition to providing the NTRS user community with a higher level of service than the previous, distributed searching version of NTRS, it has provided more insight into how the user community uses NTRS in a variety of deployment scenarios. This report details the design, implementation and maintenance of the NTRS. Source code is included in the appendices.

Original Publication Citation

Nelson, M. L. (2005). Final report for the development of the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). NASA Technical Memorandum: 213515. Hampton, VA: NASA Langley Research Center.

ORCID

0000-0003-3749-8116 (Nelson)

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