The Open Archives Initiative - Prototcol for Metadata Harvesting provides an application-independent interoperability framework.
The Open Archives Initiative - Prototcol for Metadata Harvesting provides an application-independent interoperability framework. An Interface must be able to return metadata manifestation as _Dublin Core_ format. Optionally, a repository may also disseminate other formats of metadata. In the Project Openeducation the _LOM_ format is used!
> Hint: The Standard says "The Content-Type returned for all OAI-PMH requests **must** be _text/xml_." but the validator expect _application/xml_!
> Hint: The Standard says "The **Content-Type returned** for all OAI-PMH requests **must** be _text/xml_." but the validator expect _application/xml_!
## LOM
The Learning Object Metadata is a data model, usually encoded in XML, used to describe a learning object and similar digital resources used to support learning.
The [definition](https://oer-repo.uibk.ac.at/lom/latest/) used by UIBK