•Inject the contents of an OAI-PMH repository directly into:
–Email (SMTP)
–Usenet News (NNTP)
•Instrument existing email, news servers
•Use mod_oai (www.modoai.org) to do resource harvesting
–complex object formats (e.g. MPEG-21 DIDL) used to encode the resources as “lumps of XML”
–results are generalizable to any repository system
•Analyze testbed, simulate very large collections