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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts from June 2008

BHL News, Blog Reel, Tech Updates

Updated Harvesting Process from the Internet Archive

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Note: This is a revision of our previous blog post that described our process for harvesting digitized books from the Internet Archive. Their query interface changed, and we’ve updated our process & documentation accordingly.

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June 13, 2008byChris Freeland
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WonderFetch(tm) & IA _meta.xml fields

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WonderFetch is the term used for prepopulating the Internet Archives metadata forms (so named because it is more wonderful than regular z39.50 fetching). Using WonderFetch, partner libraries can populate fields with data that would not normally be populated as part of the standard IA process, and then store those values in the foobar_meta.xml file alongside each scanned item in the IA repository. Part of the impetus for implementing WonderFetch was not just to automate the inclusion of volume and issue information for serials – which was important – but to also capture due diligence, rights, and licensing information related to each item. (And yes, the TM is a little joke! No rights reserved).

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June 4, 2008byKeri Thompson

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