OAI meaning in Community ?

Answer: What is Open Archive Initiative mean?

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was an informal organization, in the circle around the colleagues Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze, Michael L. Nelson and Simeon Warner, to develop and apply technical interoperability standards for archives to share catalogue information (metadata). The group got together in the late late 1990s and was active for around twenty years. OAI coordinated in particular three specification activities: OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE and ResourceSync. All along the group worked towards building a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives (institutional repositories) containing digital content (digital libraries) to allow people (service providers) harvest metadata (from data providers). Such sets of metadata are since then harvested to provide "value-added services", often by combining different data sets.

OAI has been involved in developing a technological framework and interoperability standards for enhancing access to eprint archives, which make scholarly communications like academic journals available, associated with the open access publishing movement. The relevant technology and standards are applicable beyond scholarly publishing.

The OAI technical infrastructure, specified in the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) version 2.0, defines a mechanism for data providers to expose their metadata. This protocol mandates that individual archives map their metadata to the Dublin Core, a common metadata set for this purpose. OAI standards allow a common way to provide content, and part of those standards is that the content has metadata that describes the items in Dublin Core format. Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of web resources.

Funding for the initiative came from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Digital Library Federation (DLF), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and other organizations.

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Full Form	Category
Office of Academic Innovation	Academic & Science
Order of Architects and Consulting Engineers (Luxembourg)	Academic & Science
Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-Conseils	Academic & Science
Outside Air Intake	Academic & Science
Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-Conseils	Academic & Science
Open Action Item	Business
Orr Associates Inc	Business
Optimization Associates Inc	Business
Optical Associates Incorporated	Business
Open Archive Initiative	Community
Origin Access Identity	Computing
Oracle Academic Initiative	Computing
Open Application Interface	Computing
Open Air Interface	Computing
Organizational Activity Interface	Computing
Open Api Initiative	Computing
OMNI - People Driven	Cryptocurrency
Omni Air International	General
Open Access Initiatives	General
Outside Access In	General
Open Access Initiative	General
Ok As Is	General
Outdoor Access Initiative	General
Outside Air Induction	General
Octane Adjust Input	General
Ordo Algolis Interstellaris	General
Ohio Aerospace Institute	Governmental
Open Archives Initiative	Governmental
Official Action Indicated	Governmental
Oceanographic Area of Interest	Governmental
OAI: Office Action Indicated	Governmental