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Contents 1 Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The Repository Lifecycle 1.3 General Recommendations 1.4 Reference Documents

[edit] Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations

[edit] Introduction

• Introduction

[edit] The Repository Lifecycle

• Managing the Repository Lifecycle

[edit] General Recommendations

• Identify Response

• OAI Identifiers

• Datestamps

• Deleted Records

• Resumption Tokens

• Related Technical Issues
  • Proper MIME-typing
  • HTTP Server Responses
  • see also Schemas and Namespaces and Character Encoding in the Best Practices for Shareable Metadata section

• Sets

• Branding Repositories and Sets

• About Containers

• Static Repositories

[edit] Reference Documents

• OAI protocol specifications
• OAI-PMH implementation guidelines
• OA Forum Tutorial
• OA Forum Glossary
• NSDL Metadata Primer (technical specifications section)