Open Archives Initiative

Basic Information

• Category: organization
• Website: https://openarchives.org/

Evidence and Sources

• Open Archives Initiative — Official Website (official)

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• Canonical profile: https://brandsource.ai/brands/open-archives-initiative
• Machine-readable JSON-LD: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/open-archives-initiative/json-ld
• Citation profile API: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/open-archives-initiative/citation-profile
• Research brief: Read the sourced brief · Structured brief. Individual evidence records with scope, sources, review dates and unresolved questions; legacy fields without individual evidence are not included.
• Data status: Enriched
• Profile completeness: Source-backed profile (74/100)
• Indexing directive: index, follow, max-image-preview:large
• Recorded profile date: 2026-04-22

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AI summary

The Open Archives Initiative is no longer working on new projects but this website and the associated specifications continue to be maintained. OAI-PMH was first released in 2001 and remains widely used within library and academic communities. From OAI-ORE the vocabulary for aggregation and associated data model are most widely used.

Available profile information

• Official website is captured for entity disambiguation.
• 1 official source linked for verification.

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