The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative

Sompel, Herbert Van de     herbert.vandesompel@rug.ac.be.     (Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library, New Mexico, US, and Automation Department of the Central Library of the University of Ghent, Belgium)   Lagoze, Carl     lagoze@cs.cornell.edu.     (Department of Computer Science Cornell University)

D-Lib Magazine ( web site) 2000 6 (2)
(ReLIS:doi:dlibma:y:2000:v:6:i:2:p:13)

Abstract:

The Open Archives initiative (OAi) promotes and encourages the development of author self-archiving solutions (also commonly called e-print systems) through the development of technical mechanisms and organizational structures to support interoperability of e-print archives. Such interoperability can stimulate the transition of e-print systems into genuine building blocks of a transformed scholarly communication model. This paper describes the Santa Fe Convention of the OAi. This is a set of relatively simple but potentially quite powerful interoperability agreements that facilitate the creation of mediator services. These services combine and process information from individual archives and offer increased functionality to support discovery, presentation and analysis of data originating from compliant archives.

Creation: 2000
Volume: 6
Year: 2000
Issue: 2

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