RestAPI

SeedDMS is a great Document Management System, but quickly exchanging documents is somewhat cumbersome. It requires any involved party to have an account, be able to upload files, and setup permission, so any receiver can access and download the files. This can be complicated, error-prone and possbily does not comply with security rules - not to mention technical restrictions, e.g. when you run SeedDMS behind a firewall. There are other applications which are much better suited and there is a solution for SeedDMS.

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a mechanism to expose meta data by a data provider. SeedDMS may act as such a data provider delivering meta data of those documents stored in SeedDMS.

OAI-PMH is widely used by libraries, repositories and publishers to provide meta data e.g. for discovery systems like vufind. It does not prefer a particular meta data standard, but uses Dublin Core (dc) as its bare minimum.