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4 Jan 2006

OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial



Open Archives Forum - OAI-PMH Online Tutorial
OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial

This tutorial is an introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

Working through this tutorial you will:

* gain an overview of the history behind the OAI-PMH and an overview of its key features;
* achieve a deeper technical insight into how the protocol works;
* learn something about some of the main implementation issues;
* find some useful starting points and hints that will help you as an implementer.

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