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Specifications for Repository Federations - Part 1

September 5, 2008 – 11:48 am

Our company has been providing search/discovery services for repositories for over 10 years. The first project that we were involved with was EDNA (EDucation Network Australia) - Australia’s gateway to education resources. Edna, as it is now known, is still providing search services for content that it catalogs, and also other useful collections […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, interoperability, metadata, standards, openDSM | Comments (0)

Open source distributed search manager ready to go

February 20, 2008 – 11:54 am

For a number of years now education.au has been providing ’search’ services to the education community in a number of its projects. The best known of these is ‘edna‘. edna’s search functionality started out as a collection of metadata records describing web resources that would be of value to people in the […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, open source, openDSM | Comments (2)

Metadata still matters

March 1, 2007 – 7:43 am

Metadata is used in many applications and has potential in many more emerging areas but I am going to concentrate simply on ’search’ here. Those of us in the repository space will be familiar with the metadata vs text indexing argument and comparisons with Google.
This blog has been active for a few months now […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, viewdo, Wii, metadata | Comments (2)