OAI-PMH
Aus Geoinformation HSR
'Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting'.
Description
- A low barrier interoperability specification
- Based around metadata harvesting model
- Metadata about resources
- HTTP based
- GET / POST requests
- XML responses
- Uses unqualified Dublin Core
- Stable (OAI has committed to making subsequent revisions of the protocol backwards compatible)
- Not a search protocol - that could be for example enhanced or merged versions of OpenSearch/GeoRSS and SRU/SRW besides WFS.
Architecture
Weblinks
- Tutorials and short explanations:
- Papers:
- Haixia Mao (2005), OAI-PMH Based Interoperation For Spatial Metadata. In: ISPRS Workshop on Service and Application of Spatial Data Infrastructure, XXXVI(4/W6), Oct.14-16 2005, Hangzhou, China.
- Specifications:
- OAI-PMH 2.0 Spec. - Specification for Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0
- OAI-PMH Static Repository 2.0 Spec. - Specification for an OAI Static Repository and an OAI Static Repository Gateway 2.0
- Tools:
- OAI tools list
- Java: OAICat
- PHP: hu-berlin.de, ...
- C: ...
- Demos and examples:
- Demo of OAICat - The OAICat Open Source project is a Java Servlet web application providing an OAI-PMH v2.0 repository framework.
- OAIster - Most often mentioned collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone.
- PKP Open Archives Harvester - Free metadata indexing system developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.