Current developments and future trends for the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting.

open archives initiative (OAI)--
so far has been fairly successful
--widely adopted since 2001
--its purpose is defined as : "to develop and promote interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content"
--NSDL provides access to science based learning objects
--problems with the registries are completeness and sparse records
--ongoing challenges:
--metadata variation
--metadata formats
--OAI Data Provider Implementation Practices
--Communication Issues

--this article was great for informing me concerning the OAI. I wasn't deeply familiar with it, but it brought up many good challenges a lot of key points about what the OAI has and will be doing for archives.