Topic summary
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
The Open Archives InitiativeProtocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a protocol developed for harvestingmetadata descriptions of records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives. An implementation of OAI-PMH must support representing metadata in Dublin Core, but may also support additional representations.