Digital Library Federation

The Digital Library Federation (DLF), in partnership with Emory University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan, will research, design, and prototype a "second generation" OAI finding system, capitalizing on the lessons learned from the first wave of OAI harvesting and using as its raw material collections drawn from across the DLF membership. The aim is to foster better teaching and scholarship through easier, more relevant discovery of digital resources, and enhance libraries' ability to build more responsive local services on top of a distributed metadata platform.