The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that help efficiently dissemination your content.
Most digital repositories are not fully OAI compliant. These repositories generally do not support the deleted OAI specification. This makes it challenging for other information systems to synchronize with your repository.
SimpleDL supports the full OAI specification which allows it to easily integrate with any OAI harvester. Being fully compliant also reduces the load that is put on your server because systems do not have to completely reharvest your archive to have an accurate snapshot of your holdings.
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Dublin Core is intended for use in cross-domain information resource description and sharing. It defines conventions for describing online objects in a way that make them easy to find. Dublin Core is generally used to describe digital materials such as video, sound, image, and text.
Most resource discovery metadata standards can be mapped to the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. This enables federated searching across metadata, created using different standards.