id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qeaz5y2lmzes7hbol264pemqpe Gordon Dunsire Collecting metadata from institutional repositories 2008 10 .pdf application/pdf 3474 170 33 Scotland on services based on metadata aggregation via OAI-PMH, and to examine the role of Collection-level description is a useful tool for aggregator services, but further work is required The paper uses the term repository to refer to local and aggregated sets of metadata aspects of metadata in institutional repositories and aggregation services. The Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland Testbed (HaIRST) project researched the meet the information retrieval functions required by many communities; the IRIScotland service Aggregator services therefore need to be aware of local metadata structure and content policies A local repository can be treated as a collection of metadata records, so any information about functionality to harvested metadata aggregations is being tested with the IRIScotland crossrepository service. Collection-level description can be a useful tool for aggregator services, but further work is Gordon Dunsire has been involved in a number of research projects in the areas of collectionlevel metadata, distributed information retrieval services, and institutional repositories. ./cache/work_qeaz5y2lmzes7hbol264pemqpe.pdf ./txt/work_qeaz5y2lmzes7hbol264pemqpe.txt