TY - JOUR AB - The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting offers the prospect of resource discovery tools far beyond what is currently available to users of the Web via standard search engines. This article illustrates how existing information about available resources can be repurposed fairly easily and cheaply using standard tools. However the publishing of this information throws up a number of practical and philosophical questions which have to be addressed by projects and institutions. VL - 22 IS - 2 SN - 0264-0473 DO - 10.1108/02640470410533434 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/02640470410533434 AU - Hunter Philip AU - Guy Marieke PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - Metadata for harvesting: the Open Archives Initiative, and how to find things on the Web T2 - The Electronic Library PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 168 EP - 174 Y2 - 2024/04/18 ER -