OAI metadata harvesting workshop

We bring together people with Open Archives Initiative (OAI) metadata harvesting experience to discuss problems, their solutions, and to identify best practices. The focus is on near- to medium-term practical issues. Participants have the opportunity to discuss problems or raise issues that they have encountered and benefit from the shared experience of the other participants. We combine and distill the OAI harvesting knowledge and experience of the participants to detail 1) best practices and existing solutions to particular harvesting problems; and 2) unresolved problems and issues with current implementations, the specification, or limitations of version 2.0 the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) [C. Lagoze et al., 2002]. The conclusion is disseminated to the wider OAI community.