mod_oai: an apache module for metadata harvesting

Authors:
Michael L. Nelson;Herbert Van de Sompel;Xiaoming Liu;Terry L. Harrison;Nathan McFarland
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA;Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, Los Alamos, NM;Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, Los Alamos, NM;Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA;Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, Los Alamos, NM
Venue:
ECDL'05 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We describe mod_oai, an Apache 2.0 module that implements the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). OAI-PMH is the de facto standard for metadata exchange in digital libraries and allows repositories to expose their contents in a structured, application-neutral format with semantics optimized for accurate incremental harvesting. mod_oai differs from other OAI-PMH implementations in that it optimizes harvesting web content by building OAI-PMH capability into the Apache server.