I present a summary of recent use of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) registration and validation services for data-providers. The registration service has seen a steady stream of registrations since its launch in 2002, and there are now over 220 registered repositories. I examine the validation logs to produce a breakdown of reasons why repositories fail validation. This breakdown highlights some common problems and will be used to guide work to improve the validation service.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0506010,
title = {The OAI Data-Provider Registration and Validation Service},
author = {Simeon Warner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0506010},
year = {2007}
}