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Open Archives Initiative

Summary

Open Archives Initiative is an organization[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Open Archives Initiative's image is recorded as OAI-PMH.jpg[3].
  • Open Archives Initiative's instance of is recorded as organization[4].
  • Open Archives Initiative's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 147315389[5].
  • Open Archives Initiative's GND ID is recorded as 16072176-3[6].
  • Open Archives Initiative's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2005048985[7].
  • +1999-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Open Archives Initiative[8].
  • Open Archives Initiative's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0lbgq[9].
  • Open Archives Initiative's location of formation is recorded as Santa Fe[10].
  • Open Archives Initiative's official website is recorded as https://openarchives.org/[11].
  • Open Archives Initiative's sponsor is recorded as Digital Library Federation[12].
  • Open Archives Initiative's sponsor is recorded as Andrew W. Mellon Foundation[13].
  • Open Archives Initiative's sponsor is recorded as Coalition for Networked Information[14].
  • Open Archives Initiative's sponsor is recorded as National Science Foundation[15].
  • Open Archives Initiative's sponsor is recorded as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation[16].
  • Open Archives Initiative's National Library of Israel ID is recorded as 002123994[17].
  • Open Archives Initiative's CANTIC ID is recorded as a12344606[18].
  • Open Archives Initiative's described by source is recorded as Open Science Thesaurus[19].
  • Open Archives Initiative's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'OAI'}[20].
  • Open Archives Initiative's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Open_Archives_Initiative[21].
  • Open Archives Initiative's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Open access[22].
  • Open Archives Initiative's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780416216[23].
  • Open Archives Initiative's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007604161905171[24].
  • Open Archives Initiative's CANTIC ID is recorded as 981058618251106706[25].
  • Open Archives Initiative's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as oai[26].
  • Open Archives Initiative's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as open-archives-initiative[27].

Body

Founding

+1999-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Open Archives Initiative[8]. Its location of formation is recorded as Santa Fe[10].

Identity

Open Archives Initiative's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'OAI'}[20].

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Open Archives Initiative include Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting[28], an application programming interface[29].

Why It Matters

Open Archives Initiative ranks in the top 4% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for it include Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting[28], an application programming interface[29].

Related Entities

National Science Foundation Open Science Thesaurus organization

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . openarchives.org. Retrieved . openarchives.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . openarchives.org. Retrieved . openarchives.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . openarchives.org. Retrieved . openarchives.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . openarchives.org. Retrieved . openarchives.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . data.loterre.fr. Retrieved . data.loterre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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