<div class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="NL-BE" style="mso-ansi-language: NL-BE"><font face="Courier New" size="2">[Forwarded message from <span lang="NL-BE" style="mso-ansi-language: NL-BE"><font face="Courier New" size="2">
Jeroen Ticheler, FAO]</font></span></font></span></div>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New">There's been discussion and interest by GeoNetwork users and supporters in getting the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) added as an interface to the GeoNetwork catalog. This would be an alternative interface to the catalog that lives next to the
Z39.50 and CSW interfaces.</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New">In OSGEO (<a href="http://osgeo.org">osgeo.org</a>) a discussion and work has been started on OAI-PMH and Stefan Keller wrote a good overview of requirements, models and implementations for this protocol.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New">Through this email I hope to stimulate the discussion and maybe trigger interest to start working on implementing this in GeoNetwork :-)
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New">Maybe some cross-fertilization between the GeoNetwork and geodata groups is also triggered through this email!</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New">Ciao,</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New">Jeroen</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New">Jeroen Ticheler</font></font></p>
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