colLib - MetaData Records Harvester

colLib - MetaData Records Harvester is the collaborative platform for organizing Open Access materials in Library & Information Science (LIS). Harvests metadata-records from OAI-PMH-compliant repositories and enables manual ‘tagging’ of these records to cluster them by subject or other meaningful categories. Tags are represented by pages in a wiki that can be annotated with links to related tags, external links, and any other text deemed relevant. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.

A rudimentary form of “collaborative filtering” has now been implemented in colLib. This means that when you look at a record that someone is watching, you get a list of other records which those users are also watching.

WARNING: Currently, the contents of your watchlist are only available to you. This might change in time, so if you do not want the contents of your watchlist to be traced back to you, please create a user that will not be associated with you through e.g. its name.

Who’s behind it?
colLib has been created and is maintained by Magnus Enger, a masters-student in Science of Documentation, University of Tromsø, Norway - as part of a project that will explore the concept of Overlay in relation to the OAI-PMH.