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Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative

Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative

Title:Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative (ID: CSD1608)
Author(s):Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information)
Topics:E-Prints, Metadata, Networked Information, OAI
Source:ARL Bimonthly Report #217
Origin:Community Contributions (2001)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

This article describes the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol, an important new infrastructure component for supporting distributed networked information services. The Metadata Harvesting Protocol—a mechanism that enables data providers to expose their metadata—is seeing very rapid deployment, and enables a fascinating array of new services and system architectures for a diverse set of communities.

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