Design Goals for Federated Services across Caltech CODA

Abstract

Caltech CODA currently exists as 15 individual archives. Fortunately, each is an OAI Data Provider which allows OAI Service Providers the opportunity to federate the content into a central database for searching or other end user services. Ideally though, Caltech Library will design a Union Catalog using the OAI-PMH. This central database would provide a local implementation of a federated search interface, using a modification of eprints.org software. The Catalog would also support other eprints.org features out of the box: RSS, Browse by Year, Author, Subject and act as a single CODA Data Provider for outside Service Providers, such as DP9, Celestial and Google Scholar.