Open Archives Initiative

Essential Documents

Tutorials and Primers

OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial -- No longer live at http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/ but available from the Internet Archive.

Selected Papers on OAI-PMH

There are far too many papers about or relating to OAI to maintain a complete list. Instead we list a few key papers:

Simeon Warner. 2005. The OAI Data-Provider Registration and Validation Service. [https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0506010]
Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Carl Lagoze, Simeon Warner. 2004. Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework. D-Lib Magazine, December 2004. [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december04/vandesompel/12vandesompel.html].
Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze. 2002. Notes from the Interoperability Front: A Progress Report on the Open Archives Initiative. 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 2002, Rome. [draft at http://www.openarchives.org/documents/ecdl2002-oai.pdf]
Steven Bird and Gary Simons. 2001. The OLAC Metadata Set and Controlled Vocabularies. Proceedings of the ACL/EACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education, Toulouse, July 2001, Association for Computational Linguistics. [http://arXiv.org/abs/cs/0105030]
Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Sompel. 2001. The Open Archives Initiative: Building a low-barrier interoperability framework . Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digtial Libraries, Roanoke VA, June 24-28, 2001, pp. 54-62. [http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/papers/Papers/2001/JCDLlagoze.pdf]
Clifford Lynch. 2001. Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative . ARL Monthly Report 217, August 2001, [http://old.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br217/br217mhp.shtml]
Hussein Suleman. 2001. Enforcing Interoperability with the Open Archives Initiative Repository Explorer. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digtial Libraries, Roanoke VA, June 24-28, 2001, pp. 63-64. [draft at http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/reports/jcdl_2001_paper_repository_explorer.pdf]
Simeon Warner. 2001. Exposing and Harvesting Metadata Using the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol: A Tutorial. HEP Libraries Webzine Issue 4 / June 2001. [http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/4/papers/3/]
Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze. 2000. The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative. D-Lib Magazine volume 6 number 2. [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/vandesompel-oai/02vandesompel-oai.html]
Herbert Van de Sompel, Thomas Krichel, Michael L. Nelson, Patrick Hochstenbach, Victor M. Lyapunov, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Mohamed Kholief, Xiaoming Liu and Heath O'Connell. 2000. The UPS Prototype: An Experimental End-User Service across E-Print Archives. D-Lib Magazine volume 6 number 2. [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/vandesompel-ups/02vandesompel-ups.html]

Additional and Historical Documents

Japanese translations of the protocol and guidelines documents were created and archived by the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. (We no longer maintain lists of additional translations.)
Wayback machine copy of: NSDL Metadata Primer includes an introduction to metadata, an introduction to Dublin Core use, and several useful FAQs
OAI-PMH version 1.1 to 2.0 Migration Instructions
Santa Fe Convention
The Open Archives Initiative: Building a low-barrier interoperability framework (JCDL 2001)
Open Archives Initiative Meeting History