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Guidelines for encoding identifiers in Dublin Core and IEEE LOM metadata. A document providing guidelines for encoding a number of commonly used identifiers in Dublin Core (DC) metadata  and IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) records is available at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi-ieee/identifiers/ .  (03/05)

Google and OAI-PMH Down Under.  Google is using OAI-PMH to harvest information from the National Library of Australia (NLA) Digital Object Repository.  For more information see  http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/oai/  (03/05)

CiteSeer supports OAI-PMH.  CiteSeer, a public digital library and search engine in computer and information science, is now OAI compliant.  For more information see  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/oai.html  (03/05)

Static Respository Specification. A Static Repository provides a simple approach for exposing relatively static and small collections of metadata records through the OAI-PMH.  The specification is available at http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-static-repository.htm.  (05/04).

mod_oai Project Aims at Optimizing Web Crawling.
The aim of the project is to create the mod_oai Apache software module that will expose content accessible from Apache Web servers via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).  More information about the mod_oai project can be found at http://www.modoai.org.






 

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