Collection

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Collection Service Description and the NISO
Metasearch Initiative
Juha Hakala, Director (IT), Helsinki University
Library Chair, NISO Metasearch Initiative Task
Group 2 Pete Johnston, UKOLN, University of
Bath Member, NISO Metasearch Initiative Task
Group 2 Special Session, DC-2004, Shanghai,
China, Wednesday 13 October 2004
http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/
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Collection Service Description for the NISO
Metasearch Initiative

• The Metasearch problem
• The NISO Metasearch Initiative
• Collections and Services
• Collection Description Service Description

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The Metasearch problem
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The problem

• Content providers make their collections
  available through their own separate