Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability. Data Providers are repositories that expose structured metadata via OAI-PMH. Service Providers then make OAI-PMH service requests to harvest that metadata. OAI-PMH is developed by the Open Archives Initiative.

ISRN fully supports the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol 2.0. Metadata for all published articles is available via the OAI-PMH interface to interested Service Providers.

Examples of OAI-PMH Requests

1. To retrieve information about a repository

   http://www.isrn.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?verb=identify

2. To retrieve the set structure of International Scholarly Research Network repository.

   http://www.isrn.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?verb=listsets

3. To retrieve the metadata formats available from International Scholarly Research Network repository.

   http://www.isrn.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?verb=listmetadataformats

4. To harvest records from International Scholarly Research Network repository.

   http://www.isrn.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?
   verb=listrecords&metadataprefix=oai_dc

5. To retrieve an individual metadata record from International Scholarly Research Network repository

   http://www.isrn.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?
   verb=getrecord&identifier=oai:isrn.com:10.5402/2011/537194&metadataprefix=oai_dc

6. To retrieve an abbreviated form of List Records, retrieving only headers rather than records for specific volume in journal

   http://www.isrn.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?
   verb=listidentifiers&metadataprefix=oai_dc&set=zoology:2011

7. To retrieve an abbreviated form of List Records, retrieving only headers rather than records in a specified date range

   http://www.isrn.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?
   verb=listidentifiers&metadataprefix=oai_dc&from=2010-11-01&until=2011-04-01