SHARE Update, August 2015 | SHARE

"During the month of August the SHARE Notify development team has made many incremental improvements to the research metadata collection process in order to produce a data set that will be more useful over the long term and will integrate with other research information systems around the world. These improvements include implementing more robust harvesting of digital object identifiers (DOIs) for sources using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and ensuring that all metadata harvesters match the SHARE Notify beta schema as closely as possible. Additionally, the team has improved metadata validation, making the data formatting more consistent and easier to parse, and has prototyped automated cleaning that strips out empty fields, streamlining the data set."

Read the full article for information on how SHARE has made improvements to the metadata and other protocals.