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Orchestrating metadata enhancement services: Introducing Lenny

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Abstract

Harvested metadata often suffers from uneven quality to the point that utility is compromised. Although some aggregators have developed methods for evaluating and repairing specific metadata problems, it has been unclear how these methods might be scaled into services that can be used within an automated production environment. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL), as part of its work with INFOMINE, has developed a model of service interaction that enables loosely-coupled third party services to provide metadata enhancements to a central repository, with interactions orchestrated by a centralized software application. This application is launched by an editor, then works to define collections by requesting web services from allied projects. In this paper, the service orchestration process is described from both perspectives.

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Jon Phipps
Cornell University, USA,
Diane I. Hillmann
Cornell University, USA,
Gordon Paynter
The INFOMINE Project Science Library University of California: Riverside,

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Phipps, J., Hillmann, D., & Paynter, G. (2005). Orchestrating metadata enhancement services: Introducing Lenny. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2005. https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.952108035

DOI : 10.23106/dcmi.952108035

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