Talis talks with Herbert van de Sompel about SFX, OAI, and Repositories

Originally posted on September 6, 2008 in the Talis Xiphos blog.

In our latest podcast I talk with Herbert van de Sompel of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. We discuss Herbert’s pivotal role in the development of SFX and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), before turning to a broader discussion of issues related to the use of repositories in preserving and providing access to scholarly literature and data.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• American Chemical Society
• arxiv
• British Library
• Cornell University
• Creative Commons
• Crossref
• DOI
• Dspace
• EBSCO
• Elsevier
• Ex Libris
• Fedora
• Flickr
• Freebase
• Ghent University Library
• Grey Literature
• Stevan Harnad
• Pete Johnston and Andy Powell podcast
• Kevin Kelly’s TED Talk
• Library of Congress
• Linked Data
• MySpace
• NISO
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
• OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI ORE)
• OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
• OpenURL
• Pathways Project
• RDF
• SilverPlatter
• SFX
• YouTube

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Herbert van de Sompel

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 20 minute recording, we'll hear sit down with the Team Lead for Digital Library Research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Herbert van de Sompel. Listen in as he discusses a range of topics including institutional repositories, scholarly communications and more.

See also:
http://www.mesur.org
http://www.projectcounter.org
http://www.openarchives.org/ore/
http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.