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<!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</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" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="shared/support.css" /> </head> <body> <div id="main">  <div id="titleBar"> <img id="oaiIcon" src="/images/OA100.gif" height="70" width="100" alt="OAI Icon" /> <div id="oaiTitle">Open Archives Initiative</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>  </div>   <div onmouseover="javascript:collapse('smenu3');" id="mainTextBlock"> <span id="breadCrumb">Open Archives Initiative -> Home</span> <div id="onePane"> <div class="textBlock"> <br /> <div class="sectionTitle">Standards for Web Content Interoperability</div> <p>The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) developed and promoted interoperability standards to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The roots of OAI lie in the open access and institutional repository movements. Over time, however, the work of OAI expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience.</p> <p>The Open Archives Initiative is no longer working on new projects but this website and the associated specifications continue to be maintained. <a href="pmh/">OAI-PMH</a> was first released in 2001 and remains widely used within library and academic communities. From <a href="ore">OAI-ORE</a> the <a href="ore/1.0/vocabulary">vocabulary for aggregation</a> and associated <a href="ore/1.0/datamodel">data model</a> are most widely used. The <a href="rs">ResourceSync</a> specification is formally standardized as <a href="https://doi.org/10.3789/ansi.niso.z39.99-2017">ANSI/NISO Z39.99-2017</a>. See also the <a href="/news/">OAI news archive</a>.</p> </div> <hr /> <div class="textBlock"> <span class="sectionTitle">OAI Projects and Specifications</span> <ul> <li><a href="rs">ResourceSync</a> <ul> <li><a href="rs/resourcesync">ResourceSync Framework Specification</a></li> <li><a href="rs/notification">ResourceSync Notification</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="pmh">OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)</a> <ul> <li><a href="OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html">OAI-PMH Version 2 Specification</a></li> <li><a href="OAI/2.0/guidelines.htm">OAI-PMH Implementation Guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="pmh/tools">OAI-PMH Tools</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="ore">OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE)</a> <ul> <li><a href="ore/1.0/toc.html">OAI-ORE Specifications and User Guides</a></li> <li><a href="ore/documents/ore-production-press-release.pdf">OAI-ORE Production Release Press Release</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="supportBody" class="textBody"> <hr /><a href="http://www.nsf.gov"> <img src="images/nsf.logo.jpg" width="40" height="40" alt="NSF Logo" class="supporterImg" /></a> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com"> <img src="images/MS.jpg" width="102" height="25" alt="MS Logo" class="supporterImg" /></a><a href="http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm"> <img src="images/dlf.gif" width="40" height="36" alt="DLF Logo" class="supporterImg" /></a> <a href="http://www.cni.org"> <img src="images/cni.gif" width="91" height="40" alt="CNI Logo" class="supporterImg" /></a> </div> <div id="supportText"><p> Support for Open Archives Initiative activities has come from the Andrew W. 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