The title is a mouthful, and the paper itself is a pretty tough read, but the topic is of significant important to those who work in educational metadata. Essentially, the author describes mechanisms for using the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting protocol for the distribution and retrieval of IMS metadata. The idea is to have a service provide - what I have been calling a metadata repository - collect this information and offer the capacity to search through results collected from a variety of sources.
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