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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, Jeffery |
| Keywords: |
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH) |
| Issue Date: |
2005 |
| Citation Information: |
Shreeves, Sarah L., Thomas G. Habing, Kat Hagedorn, and Jeffery Young. 2005. Current developments and future trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Library Trends 53, no. 4: 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
paper provides an overview of the current OAI environment and speculates on future
directions for the protocol and OAI community. |
| URI: |
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/609 |
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text |
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published or submitted for publication |
| Peer-Reviewed: |
is peer reviewed |
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