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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> After going through all the technical documents of OAI-PMH, I stand at a point which is quite confusing and have no idea of what should be my next step.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have a digital collection</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(collection of XML files)and their corresponding Metadata(metadata.xml for each XML File). Now, I am interested in setting up a OAI-PMH complaint server (I'm a Data Provider). I could understand the protocol but not sure how I should start setting things. My development platform is PHP(I did collect some information about the tools available on OAI website). Can anyone guide me from this point?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-Venkat</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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