Components and Functions
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Metadata Management System Components and Functions
[Note: Include here more accessible descriptions of components from the point of view of data managers. No jargon! Should have range of functionality from simple to more long-term ideas.]
Service Management
Harvest Management
Integrated OAI harvester, scheduler, harvest logs and histories, integrated helpdesk, notifications, comprehensive OAI server test suite
Service Provider Registration
Authentication, user management
Service registration
Service interaction parameters, service description
Metadata Quality Improvement
Validation, metadata evaluation, normalization, creation of transformations (safe and collection-specific), service rating (gold stuff), aggregation of RSS feeds, controlled vocabulary crosswalking (based on metadata registry)
Submission Support
Recommendation service (basic editing, user management, small IR with no doc management), RSS feeds as beginning submission
Metadata Exposure
Validation, flexible OAI server, provenance exposure, multiple output formats (linked to schema and crosswalk registry)