Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

In 1999, Paul Ginsparg, Rick Luce, and Herbert Van de Sompel called a meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, (https://www.openarchives.org/meetings/SantaFe1999/ups-invitation-ori.htm) to discuss interoperability between e-print servers as a means to promote communication by means of preprints. This meeting (press release at https://www.openarchives.org/news/ups1-press.htm) led to the creation of the "Santa Fe Convention," (https://doi.org/10.1045/february2000-vandesompel-oai) an interface enabling e-print servers to structure and share metadata for their papers with discovery services. Recognizing the broader applicability of these solutions, the Coalition for Networked Information and the Digital Library Federation provided funding to establish the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) secretariat, managed by Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze. The OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was introduced in 2001, evolving into version 2.0 by June 2002. Subsequently, CERN and the University of Geneva began organizing bi-annual OAI workshops, which have expanded to encompass various aspects of open science. In 2021, the workshop series was renamed the "Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication," often referred to as "OAI" to honor its origins. (summarized from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Metadata_Harvesting ). The Open Archives Initiative launched two more interoperability specification efforts after OAI-PMH: OAI-ORE (2014) and ResourceSync (2017). The core team for all efforts consisted of Carl Lagoze, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van de Sompel, and Simeon Warner.