Community:Collections and Metadata/URLSForOAI
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To quote Tim Cole of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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An Incomplete List of Useful Resources for Implementers of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
to be used in addition to the NSDL Metadata Primer at http://docs.comm.nsdl.org/21/outline.html
From the Open Archives Initiative Website:
- OAI homepage http://www.openarchives.org/
- OAI-PMH specification (latest released version, which is 2.0 as of 10/24/2003) http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- OAI-PMH implementation guidelines http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines.htm
- OAI-PMH frequently asked questions http://www.openarchives.org/documents/FAQ.html
OAI Tutorials on the Web:
- "OAI for Beginners, The Open Archives Forum Online Tutorial" http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/
- Tim Cole's tutorial from JCDL 2003 pre-conference (5/27/2003) http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/Publications/TWCole/JCDL-OAI/
- Tutorial from ALA 2002, LITA OSS4LIB pre-conference (6/14/2002) http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/reports/lita_2002_oss_oai.pdf
OAI Tools and Downloadable Software:
- Lists of downloadable OAI tools and utilities. Some are OAI Repository and/or OAI harvester implementations, some are not. http://www.openarchives.org/tools/tools.html
- XML validation tools and Unicode tools. http://www.openarchives.org/tools/tools2.html
From NSDL:
- NSDL Metadata Primer contains content on OAI, XML, Encoding, OAI validation, XML validation, etc. http://docs.comm.nsdl.org/21/outline.html
