I have been instructed to redirect the following query to this list. <br><br>I am attempting to understand what happens with non-DC records in an OAI-PMH server, since the OAI-PMH protocol encourages richer metadata records in addition to those in simple DC. I am not a OAI implementer so would appreciate an explanation for a non-technical person.<br>
<br>OAI-PMH encourages making metadata records available in formats other
than Simple DC (as well as in Simple DC)<br><br>Suppose in addition to having the brief
OAI DC record as the OAI data provider, we also have a
longer record, say in TEI or MODS, from which the brief OAI DC record
was extracted. <br>
<br>How does the OAI service provider handle that longer MODS/TEI
record? I understand that the OAIPMH service provider asks for a list of all metadata formats. Once it gets those, what does it do with them?<br><br>Does or can the Service Provider
also upload this longer record? Or does it just link/point to it on
siteĀ from the
brief DC record? <br><br>Also, does that longer record necessarily have
to be in XML format?<br><br>Many thanks<font color="#888888"><br>Neil Godfrey<br><br></font>