OAI-PMH Data Provider Validation and Registration

Note that the base URL you enter here must EXACTLY match the base URL returned in the Identify response. It must match in case (http://Wibble.org/ does not match http://wibble.org/) and include any trailing slashes etc.

Submitting this form with make some initial tests of the validation of the base URL you have submitted and then send an email to the adminEmail address specified in the Identify response. The email will contain a URL to confirm the request to validate and/or register the repository. This procedure has been adopted so that only the administrators of a repository or data provider can run the validation and registration tests.

If the registration option is selected and validation is successful, then the base URL will be added to the list of OAI-PMH registered data providers.

If you want to update an existing registration where the base URL has not changed then simply use this form and re-run the registration process. If you have changed the base URL then please send email to oai-pmh@googlegroups.com with details of the old baseURL so that the old record can be deleted. See registering as a data provider for more details of registration and validation.