The Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/) develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. One key project is the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH, http: //www.openarchives.org/pmh/) which provides “a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability” for archives (institutiona...

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has found wide-spread adoption for exchanging bibliographic metadata. In parallel, the W3C’s Linked Data Initiative exposes and interlinks structured data from a variety of data sources on the Web. Since many of these data sources contain valuable information for institutional repositories (e.g., shared concept definitions,...

Motivated by preservation and resource discovery, we examine how digital resources, and not just metadata about resources, can be harvested using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). We review and critique existing techniques for identifying and gathering digital resources using metadata harvested through the OAI-PMH. We introduce an alternative solution that...

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was first released in January 2001. Since that time, the protocol has been adopted by a broad community and become the focus of a number of research and implementation projects. We describe the various activities building on the OAI-PMH since its first release. We then describe the activities and decisions leading up to the...

Research Paper Purpose: To make CDS/ISIS databases OAI-Compliant Design/Methodology/Approach: One of the biggest obstacles for information dissemination to a user community is that many digital libraries or bibliographic databases use heterogeneous technologies that inhibit interoperability. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) addresses interoperability by using a framework to facilitate the dis...

Nowadays, most of the search engines are competing to index as much of the Surface Web as possible with leaving a lurch at the OAI content (pdf documents), which holds a huge amount of information than surface web. In this paper, a novel framework for OAI-PMH based Crawler is being proposed that uses agents to extract the metadata about the OAI resources and store them in a repository which is ...

The purpose of this article is to review metadata issues identified in recent research carried out in Scotland on services based on metadata aggregation via OAI-PMH, and to examine the role of collection-level description in managing ingest to harvested repositories, subsequent harvesting by secondary aggregators, and the contextualisation of institutional and aggregated repositories in the wid...