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Jeff Young

Software Architect

My interests include web services, interoperability, and authority control.

Currently, I'm working on the Metadata Switch project developing web services and clients. This includes unconventional applications of our open-source OAICat implementation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) which turns out to have uses beyond automated harvesting of metadata (e.g. The OpenURL Registry and the GSAFD Thesaurus).

In fact, these unconventional applications of OAI have led to the development of a new service called ERRoLs that decouples the extensions that were added to OAI for the OpenURL and GSAFD thesaurus and generalized them to work with any repository in the OAI Registry at UIUC.

I have worked at OCLC since 1987 and in the Office of Research since 1996. Past projects include CORC, the Open Names Project, and the Authority Control Service (ACS). I recently graduated Beta Phi Mu from the Kent State University School of Library & Information Science with a Master of Library & Information Science degree.

Projects

  • WikiD
  • ERRoLs
  • FRBR Bookmarklets
  • xISBN
  • "info" URI Registry
  • Metadata Switch
  • Electronic Theses & Dissertations
  • Open Archives Initiative
  • OpenURL Registry

    • Publications

  • "Metadata Switch: Thinking About Some Metadata Management and Knowledge Organization Issues in the Changing Research and Learning Landscape." With Lorcan Dempsey, Eric R. Childress, Carol Jean Godby, Thomas B. Hickey, Andrew Houghton, and Diane Vizine-Goetz. In EScholarship: A LITA Guide, ed. Debra Shapiro (2005). February 2005 preprint available at http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2004/dempsey-mslitaguide.pdf (PDF:824K/25pp.).
  • "Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." With Sarah Shreeves, Thomas Habing, and Kat Hagedorn. Library Trends, 53,4 (Spring 2004): 576-589.
  • "OCLC Research Publications Repository." With Shirley Hyatt. D-Lib Magazine, 11,3 (March 2005). Available online at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march05/hyatt/03hyatt.html.

    • Presentations

  • Six Questions (Q6) and the OpenURL Object Model (OOM) (.ppt: 217K/11 slides), DLF Fall Forum, 8 November 2006, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)
  • WikiD (Wiki/Data) (PDF:459K/18slides), code4lib 2006, 15 February 2006, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (USA)
  • WikiD (Wiki/Data) (PowerPoint:397K/30slides), DLF Fall Forum, 8 November 2005, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA)
    • Jeff Young
    Contact information:
    Email:jyoung@oclc.org
    Tel:+1-614-764-4342
    Fax:+1-614-718-7477