An OAI Approach to Sharing Subject Gateway Content
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The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) has taken a collaborative approach to the development of a network of subject gateways, each of which offers a variety of services to its subject-focused community. This paper considers the use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting as a mechanism for sharing metadata records between those gateways in order to build cross-subject resource discovery services.
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