Archon: a digital library that federates physics collections
Karel Malý, Mohammed Zubair, Michael L. Nelson, X. Liu, Hesham F. Anan, Jingqi Gao, Jianfeng Tang, Yixin Zhao · 2002
Archon is af127 ationof physics collections with varying degreesof metadata richness. Archon uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocolfo Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH) to harvest metadataf om distributed archives. The architecture of Archon is largely based on another OAIPMH digital library: Arc, a cross archive search service. However, Archon provides some new services that are specifically tailored fT the physics community.