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 |
| 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. |
| To publish and access information | |
| Borrow ideas from P2P technology and web search engines |
| Three existing approaches | ||
| Federation | ||
| Harvesting | ||
| Gathering | ||
| The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) | ||
| Archivelet and Service Providers | ||
| Data/Service Provider for the Individuals | |
| Download, platform, installation, backend | |
| http://kepler.cs.odu.edu |
| Pros | ||
| Simple, | ||
| Interoperable | ||
| Cons | ||
| Another p2p frame work (centralized) | ||
| Scalability | ||
| Archival storage (updates) | ||
| P2P technology in DL | |
| Simplicity of use and control | |
| Harvesting approach (interoperability) |