Ariadne

The new issue of Ariadne includes:

• Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives
  Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions.
• Building OAI-PMH Harvesters with Net::OAI::Harvester
  Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.
• DSpace vs. ETD-db: Choosing software for E-theses
  Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.