OAI-PMH CONFIGURATION

OAI-PMH

It focuses on the transmission of metadata on any material in electronic support, being an essential requirement that these are encoded in Dublin Core.

The OAI-PMH Protocol has the following characteristics:

• How it works is based on a client-server architecture in which a metadata collection service requests information from a data provider.

• Requests are expressed in HTTP, using only GET or POST methods.

• All responses must be well-formed XML documents encoded in UTF-8.

• Dates and time are encoded using ISO 8601 and expressed in UTC.

• Supports the dissemination of logs in various metadata formats.

• It has flow control. When there is an error or exception, repositories should indicate them by distinguishing them from HTTP status codes by including one or more error items in the response.