Harvesting and Archiving of Electronic Resources in Lithuania:
towards Virtual Library
| Session: Digital Libraries:
Gateways to Our Past |
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| Author: |
Remigijus Jodelis, The National Library of Lithuania; Lithuania |
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| Abstract: |
In November 2002 the National Library of Lithuania started the LIBIS Electronic
Resources Subsystem, consisting of NEDLIB harvester and supplementary modules in LIBIS (the Lithuanian Integrated
Library Information System), designated to create the Archive of Electronic Resources. The first harvesting
cycles of Lithuanian web space showed the following results:
- stable performance of harvesting software * varying amounts of data distributed among different categories of
websites
- incapability of harvester to handle dynamic web content
- poor quality of metadata provided by publishers
- relevance of additional gathering of perodic publications
This shows the need for further improvements of web harvesting software and use of subsidiary strategies to
obtain a reasonable image of Lithuanian digital resources in the National Library. Also it is important to promote
the use of unified metadata system (such as DublinCore) among publishers for marking web content.
Our further developments towards creating a digital library include:
- cataloguing of selected electronic resources to include them in national bibliography database
- preparing to provide access to the ER archive for library visitors
- steps towards web portal with extended information services and access to the Archive of Electronic Resources
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| About the author: |
Professional experience:
* From 05/1998 to 06/2002 - computer systems administrator at Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius.
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From 09/2000 to 06/2001 - teaching assistant in Faculty of Mathematics, Vilnius University. Course in computing methods.
* From 06/2002 till now - system administrator in the National Library of Lithuania and administrator of Electronic
Resources Project. Main duties: coordination of electronic resources,
Academic background:
1999 - B.A. in Vilnius University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.
2001 - M.A. in Vilnius University,
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.
10/2001 to 06/2002 - Hindi language certificate course in Central Hindi
Institute, Agra (India).
07/1999 - 2nd Diploma in International Mathematics Olympiad for University Students,
Hungary.
Spoken languages: Lithuanian, English, Russian.
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