Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative
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| Title: | Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative (ID: CSD1608) | |
| Author(s): | Clifford A. Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information) | |
| Topics: | E-Prints, Metadata, Networked Information, OAI | |
| Source: | ARL Bimonthly Report #217 | |
| Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (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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