[OAI-eprints] Re: [BOAI] OAI compliant

[Simeon Warner]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Linda Q. Thede wrote:
> Is the tag set described at 
> http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/tag-library/index.html  OAI compliant?

All OAI exchanged XML must validate against an XML schema. This tag
library appears to be described using DTDs and thus "isn't OAI compliant"  
(or perhaps more helpfully: can't be used for metadata exchange via OAI).

However, there is nothing to stop someone writing a schema for the
format(s) described by this tag library. Exchange of metadata using these 
tags would then be possible using OAI.

Cheers,
Simeon.