III.2: Access to Digital Data

Improve access to the digital data repository of NIST collections, including publications, artifacts, and photographs relating to measurement science

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What’s New – Using Open Archives Protocol to allow automatic harvesting by major search engines and research repositories Currently, information regarding NIST’s publications is electronically available through its Research Library’s online catalog, which includes links to the full text of many publications. Information about some of the objects in NIST’s museum is also available through the NIST Virtual Museum (NVM). The online catalog and the NVM are available to the public. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, NIST will implement a digital library repository. This repository will conform to the latest library and publishing metadata standards to enhance the ability of other scholarly and research repositories to discover and harvest information. The repository will contain the full text of NIST’s technical publications, including the Journal of Research, as well as images of and information about historical scientific objects that it maintains. The metadata will conform with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), which is the accepted standard within scholarly and scientific communities for making the contents of information collections available to researchers. File formats will adhere to Government Printing Office, Library of Congress, and National Archives preservation requirements. The repository will permit the digital forms of NIST’s technical publications and other content to be easily searchable by the public through major Internet search engines, such as Google, Google Books, Google Scholar, WorldCat, and Yahoo. This will significantly enhance publication and distribution of NIST’s research results.

Stakeholder(s):

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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