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Kepler - An OAI Data/Service Provider for the Individual
  • D-Lib Magazine April 2001
  • Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair and Xiaoming Liu


  • Presenters
  • Yingguang Li and Vorobiev Artem
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Objectives
  • Allow normal researchers at some organizations to publish results and disseminate them to a wide audience.
  • Enable the public to access all of such published information.
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Simplicity and control
  • To publish and access information
  • Borrow ideas from P2P technology and web search engines
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Interoperability
  •  Three existing approaches
    •  Federation
    •  Harvesting
    •  Gathering
  •  The Open Archive Initiative (OAI)
  •  Archivelet and Service Providers
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Kepler Overview
  • Data/Service Provider for the Individuals
  • Download, platform, installation, backend
  • http://kepler.cs.odu.edu
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Pros and Cons
  •  Pros
    •  Simple,
    •  Interoperable

  •  Cons
    •  Another p2p frame work (centralized)
    •  Scalability
    •  Archival storage (updates)
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Conclusion
  • P2P technology in DL
  •  Simplicity of use and control
  •  Harvesting approach (interoperability)
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