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Is Digital Commons an OAI Data Provider, or Service Provider?

April 26, 2017Commons Data digital OAI Provider service

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Is Digital Commons an OAI Data Provider, or Service Provider?

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Digital Commons is an OAI Data Provider, but not a Service Provider. This means that Digital Commons sites support the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) as a means of exposing metadata, but the sites do not harvest OAI data from other sites.