[OAI-implementers] Knowing you have harvested the whole collection
Thor Anderson
tanderson@collegis.com
Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:19:15 -0500
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Greeting OAI-implementers,
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I was wondering if someone could tell me the most accurate way to ensure
my OAI harvesting program has harvested all of the records of a
repository. Is there any way to get some sort of collection or
repository metadata that holds a "total number of records" value? Or,
because oai_dc metadata records are the most common denominator (and
required for minimal OAI compliance?), can I assume that a request like
this:
http://services.nsdl.org:8080/nsdloai/OAI?verb=3DListRecords&metadataPref=
i
x=3Doai_dc
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will give me the most complete set of records possible (once no more
resumptionTokens are available)?
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TIA for any help. Hope this wasn't in a FAQ somewhere that I missed.
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Thor
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Thor Anderson, Ph.D.
Collegis, Inc.
tanderson@collegis.com
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