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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi everybody!<BR>
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The National Library of Sweden has released OAI4J, a client library for OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE written in Java, as Open Source. The project is hosted on Sourceforge and can be found at:<BR>
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<A HREF="http://oai4j-client.sourceforge.net">http://oai4j-client.sourceforge.net</A><BR>
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There you can find links to a binary download, Java documentation for the API and some examples to get you started. The source code can also be found and downloaded with the help of Subversion.<BR>
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OAI4J is released as Open Source under the Apache License, version 2.0.<BR>
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Features:<BR>
- OAI-PMH<BR>
* Convenient Java API that lets you perform queries and handle the harvested data in<BR>
an object-oriented fashion.<BR>
* Handles all the verbs and responses of OAI-PMH. <BR>
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- OAI-ORE<BR>
* Lets you create and build Resource Maps from scratch programmatically.<BR>
* Handles parsing of existing Resource Maps written as Atom feeds.<BR>
* Allows Resource Map objects to be serialized into Atom feeds.<BR>
* Could be extended to also handle RDF/XML parsing/serialization.<BR>
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Any comments, questions or other feedback are appreciated. But for the coming days I will be out of the office, so e-mails might not get answered until mid-next week.<BR>
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Best regards,<BR>
Oskar Grenholm<BR>
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