Basic minimum requirements

Any organization that has digitized and documented scientific content on an online platform can provide its collections to OpenArchives.gr as long as their content meets some basic specifications.

More specifically:

• The harvesting of metadata will be done through the OAI-PMH protocol, which is a very popular metadata delivery protocol now supported virtually by all repositories and digital libraries.
• Metadata should be made available via OAI-PMH as XML, preferably in one of the following formats: OpenArchives.gr Data Model (OADM), OAI-DC, Qualified DC (QDC), HEAL, DataCite Metadata Schema, OpenAIRE Application Profile, UKETD_DC Application Profile, DC-DS-XML, ESE or EDM.
• From the Dublin Core fields (basic Metadata Element Set or DCMI Metadata Terms Set), you should at least have the value of the core fields: dc: title, dc: type, dc: subject, dc (dc: description or dcterms: created or dcterms: temporal), and dcterms: spatial, and dc: description or dc: tableOfContents or dcterms: abstract, : creator or dc: contributor)

If you do not know if your collection meets the required technical specifications, please contact us on openarchives_gr@ekt.gr.

Interoperability specifications for the optimal publication of scientific digital resources and their inclusion in OpenArchives.gr

The guide is aimed at academic and research institutions, scientific societies and publishers of scientific content.

 The aim is to ensure the accessibility and maximize the availability and reuse of the produced scientific digital content.