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# Harvesting and managing metadata collections
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/harvesting-and-managing-metadata-collections/
- Published: 2005-03-17T08:13:45.000Z
- Updated: 2005-03-17T08:13:45.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

I got a note from Eric Lease Morgan that ties together a couple of recent posts. Peter Murray [noted](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000602.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) the importance to libraries of managing metadata collections potentially pulled from various sources. And as I [noted](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000608.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) a couple of days ago, my colleagues have just [written](https://www.dlib.org/dlib/march05/hyatt/03hyatt.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) about the OCLC Research Publications [Repository](https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/?ref=lorcandempsey.net).  
What Eric has done is harvest the metadata from our publications repository, as part of a larger collection of harvested metadata he is building. 

> To make this happen, I installed the latest version of MyLibrary on a machine in Oregon. I created three MyLibrary “subject” terms called “Library science”, “technical reports”, and “OCLC Research Publications”. I then pointed my OAI harvester at your repository, collected the documents, and automatically “classified” them with each of the subject terms. Next, I wrote a report against MyLibrary listing all of the OCLC Research Publications and fed it to swish-e, an indexer. Finally, I wrote a simple CGI script providing access to the index. Sans installing MyLibrary, the whole process took about 30 minutes. \[Personal communication, 3/16/05\]

You can look at the result of Eric’s work [here](https://tinyurl.com/5ln37?ref=lorcandempsey.net).