One of the priorities on the Inventory project is to make it compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. An explanation of the OAI and why it is important may be accessed here.
Essentially, the OAI was formed to address interoperability issues in order to make content (originally of electronic pre-print articles) accessible across repositories. The OAI-PMH makes the metadata for content shareable. This article gives some background as to how this initiative came about.
Steps were taken in Spring 2006 toward making the Inventory OAI-compliant:
- The Inventory fields (most of what one finds in this chart) were mapped to Dublin Core fields. See the mappings for Inventory projects and mappings for Inventory collections.
- After mapping, our research programmer at the time, Yuping Tseng, then installed an open-source OAI PHP tool and created OAI records based on these mappings.
- The result of Yuping's work is the following:
- All the OAI records are in one big set.
- Every project record and collection record make just one OAI record.
- The identifier for a project record is, for example, oai:www.library.uiuc.edu:spx:p_1, while the identifier for a collection record is, for example, oai:www.library.uiuc.edu:spx:c_1 (so, "p" stands for "project," while "c" stands for "collection").
- The working OAI data provider is available for viewing here.
- Sample XML records may be viewed here.
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