The open archives initiative: building a low-barrier interoperability framework

  • Authors:
  • Carl Lagoze;Herbert Van de Sompel

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Library Research Group, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Digital Library Research Group, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) develops and promotes interoperabil ity solutions that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The roots of the OAI lie in the E-Print community. Over the last year its focus has been extended to include all content providers. This paper describes the recent history of the OAI - its origins in promoting E-Prints, the broadening of its focus, the details of its technical standard for metadata harvesting, the applications of this standard, and future plans.