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The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an interoperability framework for metadata harvesting.

A data provider is a source repository of e-print metadata records. A service provider harvests those records using the OAI-PMH.

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Each record in an OAI compliant repository is assigned a unique identifier, and the protocol uses this to identify and extract the metadata from the item.