Participate in the OAI community by sharing information or by implementing the OAI protocol.

Archived Mail Lists:

• The OAI general list is a moderated, low-traffic forum for OAI issues and announcements of a non-technical nature.
  
  OAI general
• The OAI implementers list is a forum for technical discussions about the OAI protocol and its use.
  
  OAI implementers

Interoperability Participants:

• DATA PROVIDERS - These participants administer systems that support the OAI protocol as a means of exposing metadata about the content in their repository.
  registered data providers        as a data provider
   
• SERVICE PROVIDERS - These participants issue OAI protocol requests to the systems of data providers and use the returned metadata as a basis for building value-added services.
  registered service providers        as a service provider

Community specific standards and conventions:

• Open Language Archives Community - a partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources. Includes a specific metadata format and instructions for data providers.
• Repository decription for the e-print community - a schema released with OAI-PMH v2.0 to describe e-print repositories.

Contact us at openarchives@openarchives.org