Future Questions and Directions
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“Standardization”?
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De-facto?
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Maintenance agency?
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Formal standards agency?
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Future OAI-PMH versions?
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Expanded functionality?
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Targeted ‘application profiles’?
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ePrints community?
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Are we going to standardize the protocol – or is defacto standard.
Do we need a maintenance agency?
Or do we need to go to a stds agency?
Some organizations won’t adapt OAI if it is not a standard.
Any more versions?
So far, not.
But is there an expanded functionality we don’t have?
Targeted aookucatuib profiles – communities define their own profiles specific to their community.