The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative

Welcome to the Santa Fe Convention. This convention is the result of a meeting of the Open Archives Initiative which was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on October 21-22 1999. This convention has been endorsed unanimously by all the participants at the meeting, who represented organizations maintaining or planning e-print archives intended for open access and organizations interested in providing services, such as search interfaces or citation-linking, based on the data in those archives. The convention presents a simple technical and organizational framework to support basic interoperability among e-print archives. Participants have expressed the intention of implementing this framework to allow for interoperability experiments in the course of the year 2000. Maintainers of existing or forthcoming e-print archives that were not represented at the meeting are strongly encouraged to join this effort by implementing the framework for their archives.