OAI-PMH Implementation Guidelines

OAI-PMH Implementation Guidelines

OAI-PMH Implementation Guidelines - Conveying rights expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides a mechanism for data providers to expose metadata for harvesting over the Web. This metadata is disseminated in OAI-PMH records. Metadata harvested from one or more data providers using the OAI-PMH can be used by service providers for the creation of services (e.g. search, browse) based on the harvested data. Data providers might want to associate rights expressions with the metadata to indicate how it may be used, shared, and modified after it has been harvested. This specification defines how rights information pertaining to the metadata should be included in responses to OAI-PMH requests. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.