Project Portal Development / Hosting
ASERL also seeks to create a project-focused portal/website (http://www.americansouth.org) that will allow
users to search the metadata for all items developed as part of this project. This requires harvesting
unqualified Dublin Core metadata (oai_dc) via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol, from
participating libraries. This metadata will be combined into a centralized index, over which discovery
tools will enable users to search the harvested metadata. Advanced search functions such as faceted
browsing are highly desirable.
ASERL seeks a partner to develop the portal and host it for public use for a minimum of two years.
The portal will need to harvest metadata and search the harvested metadata only; it is not expected to
search the full text of items held on remote servers.
