OAI-PMH Data Service

Metadata records for EAD collection guides and METS digital objects is available for harvesting via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), based on the specifications outlined below. The CDL implements the OAI-PMH 2.0 specification.

Implementation Notes

Identifiers

• The item-level identifers use the Archival Resource Key (ARK) naming scheme

Metadata Formats

• The only supported metadata schema is oai_dc.

Flow Control

• The ListRecords and ListIdentifiers verbs default to return a maximum of 20 records at a time.
• Resumption tokens are supported.

Sets

• The following existing sets are available for harvesting:
• Online Archive of California: EAD Finding Aids (set=oac:ead) [View web site]
• Online Archive of California: Images (set=oac:images) [View web site]
• Online Archive of California: Texts (set=oac:text) [View web site]
• Online Archive of California: The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute of Japanese Art (set=ucm_li) [View web site]
• Online Archive of California: UCB Water Resources Center Archives: EAD Finding Aids (set=cuwr:ead) [View web site]
• Online Archive of California: UCB Water Resources Center Archives: Digital Objects (set=cuwr:objects) [View web site]
• If you'd like us to create a customized set for your institution, please contact us at oacops@cdlib.org.