Open Archives Initiative

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The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an attempt to build a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives (institutional repositories) containing digital content (digital libraries). It allows people (Service Providers) to harvest metadata (from Data Providers). This metadata is used to provide "value-added services", often by combining different data sets.

Initially, the initiative has been involved in the development of a technological framework and interoperability standards specifically for enhancing access to e-print archives, in order to increase the availability of scholarly communication; OAI is, therefore, closely related to the Open access publishing movement. However, the developed technology and standards are applicable in a much broader domain than scholarly publishing alone.

The OAI technical infrastructure, specified in the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), currently in version 2.0, defines a mechanism for data providers to expose their metadata. This protocol mandates that individual archives map their metadata to the Dublin Core, a simple and common metadata set for this purpose.

OAI has recently begun work on the Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) project which defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.

Funding for the initiative comes from various organizations including the Joint Information Systems Committee.

[edit] See also

• Library of Congress Digital Library project
• National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
• OAI-ORE
• OAI-PMH
• Open access
• Self archiving
• Digital preservation

[edit] External links

• Homepage
• OAI News
• Largest OAI-Harvester (OAIster)
• ScientificCommons.org
• PictureAustralia
• UIUC OAI Metadata Harvesting Project
• Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals
• Openarchives.eu - The European Guide to OAI-PMH compliant repositories in the world

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