Editors
The OAI Executive:
Herbert Van de Sompel <herbertv@lanl.gov>
-- Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research
Library
Carl Lagoze <lagoze@cs.cornell.edu>
-- Cornell University - Computing and Information
Science
From the OAI Technical Committee:
Michael Nelson <mln@cs.odu.edu>
-- Old Dominion University - Dept of Computer Science
Simeon Warner <simeon@cs.cornell.edu>
-- Cornell University - Computing and Information
Science
This document is one part of the Implementation Guidelines that accompany the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
The eprints
container is used by the e-print community
to describe the content and policies of repositories.
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<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:eprints="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints" targetNamespace="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints" elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified"> <annotation> <documentation> Schema for description section of Identify reply, defined by the e-print community. the Open Archives Initiative. 2000. Validated at http://www.w3.org/2001/webdata/xsv on 05-09-2001. </documentation> </annotation> <element name="eprints" type="eprints:eprintsDescriptionType"/> <complexType name="eprintsDescriptionType"> <sequence> <!-- .... --> <!-- "content" : Text and/or a URL linking to text describing the content of the repository. --> <!-- It would be appropriate to indicate the language(s) of the metadata/data in the repository. --> <!-- .... --> <element name="content" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" type="eprints:TextURLType"/> <!-- .... --> <!-- "metadataPolicy" : Text and/or a URL linking to text describing policies relating to the use of metadata --> <!-- harvested through the OAI interface. --> <!-- .... --> <element name="metadataPolicy" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" type="eprints:TextURLType"/> <!-- .... --> <!-- "dataPolicy" : Text and/or a URL linking to text describing policies relating to the data --> <!-- held in the repository. This may also describe policies regarding downloading data (full-content). --> <!-- .... --> <element name="dataPolicy" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" type="eprints:TextURLType"/> <!-- .... --> <!-- "submissionPolicy" : Text and/or a URL linking to text describing policies relating to --> <!-- the submission of content to the repository (or other accession mechanisms). --> <!-- .... --> <element name="submissionPolicy" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" type="eprints:TextURLType"/> <!-- .... --> <!-- "comment" : Text and/or a URL linking to text describing anything else that is --> <!-- not covered by the fields above. It would be appropriate to include additional --> <!-- contact details (additional to the adminEmail that is part of the response to the Identify request). --> <!-- .... --> <element name="comment" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="string"/> </sequence> </complexType> <complexType name="TextURLType"> <choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <element name="URL" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="anyURI"/> <element name="text" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="string"/> </choice> </complexType> </schema> |
This Schema is available at http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints.xsd |
The following examples are excerpts from Identify
responses which may contain
zero or more <description> containers.
<description> <eprints xmlns="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints.xsd"> <content> <URL>http://arXiv.org/arXiv_content.htm</URL> </content> <metadataPolicy> <text>Metadata can be used by commercial and non-commercial service providers</text> <URL>http://arXiv.org/arXiv_metadata_use.htm</URL> </metadataPolicy> <dataPolicy> <text>Full content, i.e. preprints may not be harvested by robots</text> </dataPolicy> <submissionPolicy> <URL>http://arXiv.org/arXiv_submission.htm</URL> </submissionPolicy> </eprints> </description> |
<description> <eprints xmlns="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints.xsd"> <content> <text>Serveur de Thèses du CCSD-CNRS</text> </content> <metadataPolicy> <text>CCSD metadata are freely accessible to all, under the following conditions: (1) The full name of the author and (2) the full bibliographic reference information for the thesis must always co-appear prominently with any redisplay of the metadata, in any medium. The metadata may not be offered for sale.</text> </metadataPolicy> <dataPolicy> <text>CCSD full-text thesis are freely accessible to all under the following conditions: (1) The full name of the author and (2) the full bibliographic reference information for the thesis must always co-appear prominently with redisplay of the text, in any medium. The text may not be offered for sale.</text> </dataPolicy> <submissionPolicy> <text>Submissions are made by Faculty and EPST members.</text> </submissionPolicy> <comment>System is EPrints Version 1.1.1 (23/01/2001) with french language (http://www.eprints.org/)</comment> </eprints> </description> |
Support for the development of the OAI-PMH and for other Open Archives Initiative activities comes from the Digital Library Federation, the Coalition for Networked Information, and from the National Science Foundation through Grant No. IIS-9817416. Individuals who have played a significant role in the development of OAI-PMH version 2.0 are acknowledged in the protocol document.
2003-11-21: Corrected minor errors (typo and incorrect use of named instead of numeric entity in example).
2002-06-14: Release of this document, combined with the release of OAI-PMH version 2.0.