Last week when I first blogged mod_oai, it shared a web page with the Digital Library GRID where it was not fully described. But now it has a web site of its own. Excerpt: "The aim of the project is to create the mod_oai Apache software module that will expose content accessible from Apache Web servers via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)....The [OAI] protocol has had a considerable impact in the field of digital libraries but it has yet to be embraced by the general Web community. The mod_oai project hopes to achieve such broader acceptance by making the power and efficiency of the OAI-PMH available to Web servers and Web crawlers."
Mod_oai is a joint project of the Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group (Michael Nelson) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Herbert Van de Sompel) and funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/21/2004 10:14:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
