Report on available collections and metadata: Deliverable 3.1of project EuDML

This deliverable is the first outcome of this work and is based on a survey of the content that partners contracted to provide to the EuDML project. These collections are outlined in the Annex I of the project. The purpose of this document is to give a much more precise picture of the available items in the collections, and their associated metadata (both in terms of structure, aka schema, and shape, aka encoding or serialization). A review of the OAI-PMH interoperability among our partners is included as well, so that a comprehensive knowledge base is now available, documenting the state-of-the-art and issues to be tackled towards building the EuDML central metadata repository. The second section summarizes the findings of this study.