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>
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| 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>
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<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>
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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.