Selected Bibliography and External Resources

Protocols and Specifications

Lagoze, C., Van de Sompel, H., Nelson, M. and Warner, S. eds. (2002) The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm

Van de Sompel, H., Lagoze, C., Nelson, M. and Warner, S. Hochstenbach, P., Jerez, H. eds. (2002) Specification for an OAI Static Repository and an OAI Static Repository Gateway
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-static-repository.htm

Papers

Hochstenbach, P., Jerez, H., Van de Sompel, H. (2003) "The OAI-PMH Static Repository and Static Repository Gateway", 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'03), 210-217
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/JCDL.2003.1204865

Presentations

Habing, T. G., Introduction to OAI Static Repositories
http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/nsdl2004/staticOAI.htm

Software

OAI Static Repository Gateway software (to create a gateway)
http://srepod.sourceforge.net/

Alternatively Static Repositories can be registered in the following experimental gateway
http://libtest.lanl.gov/

Tutorials

OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/

Related Projects and Initiatives

IRIScotland
http://www.iriscotland.lib.ed.ac.uk/

OAI Scotland Information Service: Open Archives and Initiatives in Scotland
http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/oaisis/index.htm

Pilot Engineering Repository Xsearch (PerX)
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/