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Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="/shared/dropDown.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/shared/titleBar.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/shared/oai.css" /> </head> <body> <div id="main"> <!--START-TITLE--> <div id="titleBar"> <img id="oaiIcon" src="/images/OA100.gif" height="70" width="100" alt="OAI Icon" /> <div id="oaiTitle">Open Archives Initiative<br />Protocol for Metadata Harvesting</div> <div id="menu"> <dl id="firstMenu"> <dt onmouseover="javascript:dropDown();"><a href="/organization/">About OAI</a></dt> </dl> <dl> <dt onmouseover="javascript:dropDown('smenu3');">Community</dt> <dd id="smenu3"> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/resourcesync">ResourceSync group</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/oai-announce">OAI-announce</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/oai-pmh">OAI-PMH group</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/oai-ore">OAI-ORE group</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/">OAI-general archives</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/">OAI-PMH implementers archives</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites">OAI-PMH Data providers</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html">OAI-PMH Service providers</a></li> <li><a href="/ore/community/">OAI-ORE Community</a></li> </ul> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt onmouseover="javascript:dropDown('smenu2');">Specifications</dt> <dd id="smenu2"> <ul> <li><a href="/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html">OAI-PMH Version 2</a></li> <li><a href="/OAI/2.0/guidelines.htm">OAI-PMH Guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="/ore/toc">OAI-ORE</a></li> <li><a href="/rs/toc">ResourceSync</a></li> <li><a href="/documents/FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/documents/">More Documents</a></li> </ul> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt onmouseover="javascript:dropDown('smenu1');">Projects</dt> <dd id="smenu1"> <ul> <li><a href="/rs">ResourceSync</a></li> <li><a href="/ore">OAI-ORE</a></li> <li><a href="/pmh/">OAI-PMH</a></li> </ul> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt onmouseover="javascript:dropDown();"><a href="/">Home</a></dt> </dl> </div> <!--menu--> </div> <!--titleBar--> <!--END-TITLE--> <div onmouseover="javascript:collapse('smenu3');" id="mainTextBlock"> <span id="breadCrumb">Open Archives Initiative -> PMH</span> <div id="focusBox"> <div class="sectionTitle"> OAI-PMH Core Resources </div> <br /> <ul> <li><span class="focusBoxHeadline"> <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html"> OAI-PMH Version 2.</a><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html">0 Specification</a></span><br /> Describes the six OAI-PMH verbs, the XML schema for responses to verbs, and the underlying data model</li> <li><span class="focusBoxHeadline"> <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines.htm">Implementation Guidelines</a></span><br /> A supplement to the OAI-PMH Version 2.0 Specification that includes guidelines for implementers and guidelines for specific application domains.</li> <li><span class="focusBoxHeadline"> <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-static-repository.htm"> Static Repository Specification</a></span><br /> Provides a simple approach for exposing relatively stable and small collections of metadata records through the OAI-PMH.</li> </ul> </div> <div id="leftPane"> <div class="textBlock"> <br /> <div class="sectionTitle">Interoperability through Metadata Exchange</div> <br /> The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability. <em> Data Providers</em> are repositories that expose structured metadata via OAI-PMH. <em>Service Providers</em> then make OAI-PMH service requests to harvest that metadata. 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