Open Archives Initiative

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Not to be confused with OAIS, a conceptual framework for organizing archival repositories, or with the similarly named Budapest Open Access Initiative.
Logo used by the Open Archives Initiative.

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was an informal organization, in the circle around the colleagues Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze, Michael L. Nelson and Simeon Warner,[1] to develop and apply technical interoperability standards for archives to share catalogue information (metadata).[2][3][4][5] The group got together in the late late 1990s[6] and was active for around twenty years. OAI coordinated in particular three specification activities: OAI-PMH,[7] OAI-ORE[8] and ResourceSync.[9][10][11] All along the group worked towards building a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives (institutional repositories) containing digital content (digital libraries) to allow people (service providers) harvest metadata (from data providers).[12][13] Such sets of metadata are since then harvested to provide "value-added services", often by combining different data sets.[14][15][16][17]

OAI has been involved in developing a technological framework and interoperability

scholarly communications like academic journals available, associated with the open access publishing
movement. The relevant technology and standards are applicable beyond scholarly publishing.

The OAI technical infrastructure, specified in the

protocol mandates that individual archives map their metadata to the Dublin Core, a common metadata set for this purpose. OAI standards allow a common way to provide content, and part of those standards is that the content has metadata that describes the items in Dublin Core format. Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE)[8] defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of web resources
.

Funding for the initiative came from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Digital Library Federation (DLF), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and other organizations.[5]

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References

  1. ISBN 978-1-85604-820-0
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  2. arXiv:cs/0106057
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  3. ISSN 1082-9873
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  4. ISSN 0737-8831
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  5. ^ a b Open Archives Initiative -> About OAI
  6. ISSN 1082-9873
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  7. ^ a b Lagoze, Carl; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Nelson, Michael; Warner, Simeon (2002-06-14). "Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting - v.2.0". www.openarchives.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  8. ^ a b "ORE Specifications and User Guides - Table of Contents". www.openarchives.org. 2014 [2008]. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  9. ISBN 978-3-642-40500-6
    , retrieved 2021-02-26
  10. ^ "ResourceSync Framework Specification - Table of Contents". www.openarchives.org. 2017. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  11. ^ "ANSI/NISO Z39.99-2017 ResourceSync Framework Specification | NISO website". www.niso.org. 2017. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  12. ISSN 0737-8831
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  13. S2CID 60593691
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  14. ISSN 0737-8831
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  15. ISBN 978-1-59158-280-9
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  16. ^ Shreeves, Sarah L.; Habing, Thomas G.; Hagedorn, Kat; Young, Jeffery (2005). "Current developments and future trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting". Library Trends. 53 (4): 576–589.
  17. ISSN 0024-2527
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