Introducing OAI MHP
- OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol
- lightweight protocol which allows data providers to expose metadata records for retrieval by service providers
- data providers (projects) supply metadata as XML documents
- Must provide simple DC (OAI provides XML Schema)
- May provide other metadata formats (in XML)
- OAI provides a standardised means for NOF portal - and other portals - (service providers) to gather metadata records from projects (data providers) into central database