1. OAI: What happened since Summer 2000 End of Summer 2000 –Not only e-prints research library community publishers, librarians, scholars –Digital Library Federation and Coalition of Netwoked Information decided to support OAI –Set up of a steerling and a technical committee –Revise interoperability specifications to allow adoption beyond preprints

2. OAI: What happened since Summer 2000 November 2000-January 2001: Alpha test of specifications: arXiv -- Los Alamos NACA -- NASA CogPrints -- U Southampton ETD -- Virginia Tech Thesis & Dissertations from WorldCat -- OCLC American Memory -- Library of Congress

3. OAI: What happened since Summer 2000 Alpha test of specifications (cont.): HeinOnline law journals -- Cornell U TEI-lite collection -- U Tennessee STM publisher metadata -- U Illinois Resource Disovery Network -- UKOLN Open Language Archives -- U Pennsylvania Open Video Project -- U Northern Carolina CIMI

4. OAI: What happened since Summer 2000 January 2001 –Released Version 1.0 of the OAI protocol

5. OAI – Cyclades: What happened since summer 2000 October 2000: Cornell submitted proposal for Prism supplement funding –Interoperabiliy Architecture –Collection Service Architecture December 2000: Cornell submitted a proposal under the NSF – EU joint DL agreement –Collection level metadata –Context sensitive extended services

6. Why Cyclades is interesting for the OAI? Experimentation and evaluation of the low barrier interoperability –Harvesting –Archive description –Data description Which services can be implemented with the current level of interoperability agreements?

7. Why Cyclades is interesting for the OAI? What improvements will be possible by introducing appropriate controlled extensions? Which are the limitations that cannot be overcome? First example of set of interoperable archive services

8. Establishing assumptions Will Cyclades harvest all the OAI registered archives or a subset of them (e.g. e-print)? Do we require DC mandatory fields (e.g. abstract)? Do we need specific archive descriptions? Personal view: Establish minimal initial assumptions, see how far we can go with them, and possibly to revise them later