Harvesting Guideline

From DISMARC Help

DISMARC Harvesting Guidelines

DISMARC establishes a gateway to freely-available audio-content which will increase the visibility of the individual collections and will make the content discoverable to a wider audience. The project offers music archives the opportunity to submit music collections for aggregation in the DISMARC repository via harvesting of the metadata records associated with the resources.

The term ‘metadata’ refers here to the cataloguing and indexing information describing the data items. For metadata harvesting DISMARC uses the international standard “Open Archives Initiative protocol (OAI-PMH) (www.openarchives.org). The DISMARC OAI-PMH harvester supports the Dublin Core metadata schema which has been adapted to the needs of music metadata on the basis of the Dublin Core application profile for libraries (DC-Lib). OAI-PMH enables connecting distributed electronic repositories of many kinds. An outstanding feature of the DISMARC search and browse services will be the multilingual search support and multilingual portal presentation.