What is the advantage of registering my repository with the OAI?
Data providers who support the OAI-PMH may choose to register through the registration page at http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html. The registration data base serves as a publicly accessible list of OAI-PMH conformant repositories, making it easy for service providers to discover sites from which metadata can be harvested. The registry database contains all the information available through the OAI Identify request including: • repositoryName: a human readable name for the repository, in the example “The University of Spa E-print System”; • baseURL: the BASE-URL for making protocol requests to the repository; • protocolVersion: the version of the OAI-PMH supported by the repository; • adminEmail: the e-mail address of the administrator of the repository. • additional protocol information and repository-specific description packages. NOTE: data providers who register with the OAI agree to make this information public. There are no provisions for restricting access t
