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| Title: |
Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting |
| Authors: |
Shreeves, Sarah L.
Habing, Thomas G.
Hagedorn, Kat
Young, Jeffrey A. |
| Keywords: |
Commercialization
Internet
Libraries and the World Wide Web
World Wide Web |
| Issue Date: |
2005 |
| Publisher: |
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| Citation Information: |
In Library Trends 53(4) Spring 2005: 576-589. |
| Abstract / Summary: |
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
has been widely adopted since its initial release in 2001. Initially developed
as a means to federate access to diverse e-print archives through
metadata harvesting and aggregation, the protocol has demonstrated its
potential usefulness to a broad range of communities. Two years out from
the release of the stable production version of the protocol (2.0), there are
many interesting developments within the OAI community. Communities
of interest have begun to use the protocol to aggregate metadata relative
to their needs. The development of a registry of OAI data providers with
browsing and searching capabilities as well as accessibility to machine processing
is helping to provide a scalable solution to the question of who is
providing what via the OAI protocol. Work is progressing on the technical
infrastructure for extending the OAI protocol beyond the traditional
harvesting structure. However, serious challenges, particularly for service
providers, still exist. This article provides an overview of the current OAI
environment and speculates on future directions for the protocol and OAI
community. |
| URI: |
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1754 |
| ISSN: |
0024-2594 |
| Type of Resource: |
text |
| Genre of Resource: |
article |
| Publication Status: |
published or submitted for publication |
| Appears in Collections: |
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