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OAI 2.0 is a java implementation of an OAI-PMH data provider interface developed by Lyncode that uses XOAI, an OAI-PMH Java ToolkitLibrary.

Why OAI 2.0?

Projects like OpenAIRE, Driver have specific metadata requirements (to the published content through the OAI-PMH interface). As the OAI-PMH protocol doesn't establish any frame to these specifics, OAI 2.0 can, in a simple way, have more than one instance of an OAI interface (feature provided by the XOAI core library) so one could define an interface for each project. That is the main purpose, although, OAI 2.0 allows much more than that.

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