Jessica Williams' email: OAI, LISjobs, MD sites

OAI defines a protocol, and that happens to be free. Software which implements the protocol may be free or not. It's like Z39.50 - you can buy clients and servers, but there are also open-source ones.Often, the data provider side is built into as repository application, whether commercial (ContentDM) or Open Source (DSpace). We're using free software from OCLC for both ends - the data provider (OAICat) (so we can be harvested by others) and the harvester (so we can harvest others, for WHO). We chose it largely because it was implemented
There's a list at http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TurnKeyPackages

Here are some listservs for that your students might want to subscribe to for recent job postings.
1. libjobs@infoserv.inist.fr (the website for more information is http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/info/libjobs)
2. Here is a metadata librarians discussion group that sometimes has job postings.http://lists.monarchos.com/listinfo.cgi/metadatalibrarians-monarchos.com
3. Here is the link to ALA's job site: http://www.ala.org/ala/education/empopps/employmentopportunities.htm
4. Here is the Pacific Northwest job sitehttp://www.pnla.org/jobs/index.htm

In general here are some metadata sites that the UW-Milwaukee LIS professor, Steve Miller, put me in touch with along with his comments:

> I also highly recommend looking regularly at David Bigwood's Catalogablog: http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/ (and subscribing to theRSS feed). It includes as much about metadata as cataloging, and I useit myself to stay informed on a lost of current developments. David does a great job of staying abreast of news and posting it to his blog. It's not a place to ask questions, but a great way to keep up with newdevelopments, changes in existing standards, etc. > >

There's also Dublin Core list, but I think it's more for DCdevelopers than day-to-day practioner questions. But I haven't kept upwith it much lately so it could be worth "lurking" and seeing what kindof posts are being made. At any rate, its the place to stay abreast of Dublin Core developments.
DC-GENERAL:http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=dc-general&A=1<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=dc-general&A=1> > >

There's also "Metadata Blog," the ALCTS Networked Resources andMetadata Interest Group Blog: http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php<http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php>

It's very new and not terribly useful yet, but might grow. > >

Definitely on the list are the Dublin Core web site:http://dublincore.org/ <http://dublincore.org/>
and to some extent alsothe NSDL OAI Metadata Best Practices site:http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl<http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl>