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

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.

Simplicity and control
To publish and access information
Borrow ideas from P2P technology and web search engines

Interoperability
 Three existing approaches
 Federation
 Harvesting
 Gathering
 The Open Archive Initiative (OAI)
 Archivelet and Service Providers

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)

Conclusion
P2P technology in DL
 Simplicity of use and control
 Harvesting approach (interoperability)

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