---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 24 Jun 2008 10:09:39 -0000 From: manoj kumar pant This is some of the articles on OAI PMH However article by is Lynch, Clifford is very good for more technical aspec= ts you can follow the bibliographic references . Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Sompel (2001). "The Open Archives Initiative= : Building a Low-Barrier Interoperability Framework". Proceedings of the fi= rst ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'01): 54-62. Lynch, Clifford A. (2001). "Metadata harvesting and the open archives initi= ative". ARL Bimonthly Report 217. Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson and Mohammed Zubair (March/Ap= ril 2006). "Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus". IEEE Internet Co= mputing 10 (2): 66=9673. Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze (2000). "The Santa Fe Convention of t= he Open Archives Initiative". D-Lib Magazine 6 (2). doi:10.1045/february200= 0-vandesompel-oai. Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeffrey A. Young, and Thomas B. Hickey (2003). "Usin= g the OAI-PMH ... Differently". D-Lib Magazine 9 (7/8). doi:10.1045/10.1045= /july2003-young (inactive 2008-06-21).