Open Archives Initiative

• OAI Metadata Harvesting Framework

• simple mechanism for sharing metadata records

• records shared over HTTP...

• ... as XML

• client can ask metadata server for

  • all records
  • all records modified in last ‘n’ days
  • info about databases, formats, etc.

• See <http://www.openarchives.org/>

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