OAI Pacific Rim Library Pacific Rim Digital Library Association PRDLA PRL Information discovery and retrieval Indexing Metadata Deep Web
Issue Date
2009
Publisher
Elsevier Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/serrev
Citation
Serials Review, 2009, v. 35 n. 3 [How to Cite?]
Abstract
The Pacific Rim Library (PRL) is an initiative of the Pacific Rim Digital Library Association (PRDLA). The project began in 2006 using the OAI-PMH paradigm and now holds over 300,000 records harvested from OAI data provider libraries around the Pacific. PRL's goal is to enable the sharing of digital collections amongst PRDLA members and the world, but greater unexpected benefits have been discovered. Through mirroring their metadata, PRL increases the chance that their data will be discovered in Google and other general search engines. With its many disparate collections, PRL is not a repository for traditional information discovery and retrieval. Initially users will bounce from a Google hit, to the PRL metadata record in Hong Kong, and then begin an intensive search on the original site which hosts the full digital object, in Vancouver, Honolulu, Wuhan, Singapore, or other PRDLA member location.
