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  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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  <title>Overview</title>
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  <para>The OpenAIRE API allows developers to access the metadata information space of OpenAIRE
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    programmatically.</para>
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  <itemizedlist>
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    <listitem>
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      <para>Bulk access:</para>
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      <simplelist>
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        <member><xref linkend="cha_oai_pmh"/></member>
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        <member><xref linkend="cha_projects_http"/></member>
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      </simplelist>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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      <para>Selective access via <xref linkend="cha_http-api"/></para>
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      <simplelist>
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        <member><xref linkend="sec_http-pubs"/></member>
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        <member><xref linkend="sec_http-datasets"/></member>
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        <member><xref linkend="sec_http-projects"/></member>
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      </simplelist>
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    </listitem>
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  </itemizedlist>
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  <para> Please note that currently the total numbers of metadata returned by the <xref
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      linkend="cha_http-api"/> and the <xref linkend="cha_oai_pmh"/> are different because the first
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    discards duplicates. </para>
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  <para> The behaviour of the OAI-PMH publisher will be updated soon to not export
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    duplicates.</para>
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  <para>The default format of delivered records is <code>oaf</code> (OpenAire Format - current
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    version 0.3): <simplelist>
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      <member><link xlink:href="https://www.openaire.eu/schema/0.3/oaf-0.3.xsd"/></member>
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      <member><link xlink:href="https://www.openaire.eu/schema/0.3/doc/oaf-0.3.html"/></member>
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    </simplelist>
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  </para>
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  <para>The latest versions of the XML schema and documentation are also available at the following
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    links: <simplelist>
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      <member><link xlink:href="https://www.openaire.eu/schema/latest/oaf.xsd"/></member>
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      <member><link xlink:href="https://www.openaire.eu/schema/latest/doc/oaf.html"/></member>
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    </simplelist>
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  </para>
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  <para>Older versions: <simplelist>
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    <member><code>oaf</code> v0.2 <link xlink:href="https://www.openaire.eu/schema/0.1/oaf-0.2.xsd"> XML
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    <member><code>oaf</code> v0.1 <link xlink:href="https://www.openaire.eu/schema/0.1/oaf-0.1.xsd"> XML
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      schema</link> and <link xlink:href="https://www.openaire.eu/schema/0.1/doc/oaf-0.1.html">documentation</link></member>
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    </simplelist>
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  </para>
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