Overview
OAI stands for the Open Archive Initiative founded to solidify and maintain the standards for open access repositories around the world. The standard for metadata format from an OAI repository comes in the form of
Development Links
OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting - http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
Dublin Core - http://dublincore.org/
Data Schema
OAI supports a variety of data standards. Inside the metadata tag each standard supported encompasses the xml data for its format. In the example below the metadata format is Dublin Core, oai_dc:dc.
Sample Citation
<ListRecords>
<record>
<header>
<identifier>oai:repositoryName</identifier>
<datestamp>recordDate</datestamp>
<setSpec></setSpec>
</header>
<metadata>
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
<dc:title>Title of the Book/Article</dc:title>
<dc:creator>Author usually</dc:creator>
<dc:subject></dc:subject>
<dc:identifier></dc:identifier>
<dc:format>text/html</dc:format>
<dc:description></dc:description>
<dc:publisher></dc:publisher>
<dc:date></dc:date>
<dc:publisher></dc:publisher>
<dc:date></dc:date>
<dc:type>Text</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>
</metadata>
</record>
</ListRecords>
dc:Title -
dc:creator -
dc:contributer -
dc:Subject -
dc:identifier -
