How can I find our more about the Open Archives Initiative?
Information about the Open Archives Initiative is available in a number of web-accessible documents: • OAI web site (http://www.openarchives.org) – This is the best source for up-to-date information and news about the OAI, providing links to all documents in the remainder of this list. • OAI-PMH specification (http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html) – The specification of the metadata harvesting protocol. • OAI-PMH implementation guidelines (http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines.htm) – A set of documents supplemental to the OAI-PMH specification that describe best practices and community-specific extensibility features. • OAI-PMH migration document (http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/migration.htm) – A document supplemental to the OAI-PMH specification that describes differences between the version 2.0 and 1.1 specification. • OAI FAQ (http://www.openarchives.org/documents/FAQ.html) – This document: consult the web version for the latest revision. • oai-gen