The Santa Fe Convention is discontinued . Please use the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting instead. The Santa Fe Convention provides recommendations for interoperability among archives.
Archives provide access to records .
The word document is purposely avoided and the notion of a record is purposely imprecise. The semantics of this set has purposely been kept simple in the interest of easy creation and widest applicability. The expectation is that individual archives will maintain metadata with more expressive semantics and the Open Archives Dienst Subset provides the mechanism for retrieval of this richer metadata. A DTD is given at the end of this document. The semantics of the oams could be expressed using Dublin Core Element Set , with some qualification of those elements.