[OAI-general] BETA version of OAI-PMH v.2.0

[herbert van de sompel]

Dear,

We are pleased to announce the release of the BETA version of the
OAI-PMH v.2.0:

* The BETA protocol document is available at
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm .
* Linked from the protocol document is also a migration document
pointing out the major differences between the experimental 1.0/1.1
version of the protocol and version 2.0, which is released as a stable
specification.
* Also linked from the protocol document are Implementation Guidelines,
covering a broad range of topics related to protocol implementation.

This BETA release comes after 16 months of worldwide experimentation
with version 1.x of the protocol, an 8 month revision process by the
OAI-tech group, and 2 months of alpha testing.  We feel confident about
the quality of the resulting specification.  We encourage discussion of
the specification on the oai-implementers list to help us further
improve the specification. Also, we encourage you to inform the list
about v.2.0BETA conformant data provider implementations, when they
become available.  We expect this to be useful to support other
implementations/migrations.

The full release of the OAI-PMH v.2.0 is expected around the middle of
June 2002.  Up until that time we hope to keep the functionality of the
beta specification stable, restricting changes to textual clarifications
and corrections.

Below, preliminary information is provided regarding OAI-PMH v.2.0
conformant tools that will become available by or soon after June 1st
2002.  They will be listed on the Open Archives website as they become
available.

Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze
The Open Archives Initiative Executive


OAI-PMH v.2.0 conformant tools expected June 2002
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Open Archives Initiative:
- OAI-PMH v.2.0 validation and registration service

Virginia Tech:
- Repository Explorer
- object oriented OAI-PMH v.2.0 Perl toolkit for harvesters and
repositories (under MIT license)

University of Southampton:
- oai-perl librarytoolkit for harvesters and repositories (open source)

Old Dominion University:
- DP9 (open source)

The British Library
- Repository servlet exposing XML records stored file system (open
source)
- Harvester software with GUI admin interface (open source)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Windows-based harvester and repository software (open aource)
- Linux /Java-based harvester software (open source)

Ex Libris
- repository software for Aleph 500 system

--
Herbert Van de Sompel
digital library research & prototyping
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library
+ 1 (505) 667 1267 / http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~herbertv/

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