OAI-PMH, RSS, Atom, APP, Syndication

• Michael L. Nelson, Better Interoperability Through the Open Archives Initiative, New Review of Information Networking 7, 2002, pp. 133-145.
  http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/pubs/nrin-oai.pdf

  This paper gives an overview of OAI-PMH 1.1 and contrasts it with distributed searching. Note that this paper, and Cliff's below, were written before the name of the protocol had stablilized to "OAI-PMH".

• Clifford Lynch. 2001. Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative. ARL Monthly Report 217, August 2001.
  http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br217/br217mhp.shtml

  This article discusses some implications of the proliferation of the OAI-PMH.

• McCown, F., Liu, X., Nelson, M. L., and Zubair, M. "Search engine coverage of the OAI-PMH corpus." IEEE Internet Computing 10(2) , 2006, pp. 66-73.
  http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?LA-UR-05-9158.pdf

• Kat Hagedorn, Joshua Santelli, "Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs", 14(7/8), 2008.
  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hagedorn/07hagedorn.html

  The above two papers (published well after OAI-PMH has been widely adopted) discuss how search engines are not using OAI-PMH to discover resources in the deep web.

• Mark Pilgrim, "The myth of RSS compatibility", 2004.
  http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss

• M. Nottingham, R. Sayre, "The Atom Syndication Format", RFC-4287, December 2005.
  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt

• J. Gregorio, B. de hOra, "The Atom Publishing Protocol", RFC-5023, October 2007.
  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5023.txt