Standard
OAI-PMH
Low-barrier protocol for interoperability between repositories, based on harvesting their metadata.
How it connects
Builds on
- arXiv implements OAI-PMH. arXiv exposes its metadata through OAI-PMH. Claims that it was an early implementer or that the protocol grew out of its harvesting needs are unverified here.
- BASE implements OAI-PMH.
- CORE implements OAI-PMH.
- Dataverse implements OAI-PMH.
- Digital Commons implements OAI-PMH.
- DSpace implements OAI-PMH.
- InvenioRDM implements OAI-PMH.
- OpenAIRE implements OAI-PMH.
- PANGAEA implements OAI-PMH.
- Zenodo implements OAI-PMH.
Shapes
- ANID open access policy mandates OAI-PMH. Repositories used for ANID-funded data must interoperate with the ANID repository via OAI-PMH.
Related to
- OAI-PMH relates to Metadata. The protocol exists to harvest metadata: a repository exposes its records and other services collect them.
Links
Details
Also known as: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Description
OAI-PMH lets a repository expose its metadata so that other services can harvest it.
Attributes
| url | https://www.openarchives.org/pmh/ |
|---|---|
| identifiers | wikidata: Q2430433 |
| status | active |
| governance | Community |
| prominence | core |
| type | Standard |
| standardKind | protocol |
| machineReadable | yes |
| Tags | function: aggregation |
Sources
- https://www.openarchives.org/pmh/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): Describes OAI-PMH as a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability.
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/documentos.anid.cl/estudios/Politica_acceso_a_informacion_cientifica_2022.pdf(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): Chilean funder policy text; data repositories must be interoperable with the funder repository through OAI-PMH.
Last reviewed: 2026-11-12
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