[OAI-implementers] Time stamp preventing OAI harvest?

[Simeon Warner]

Hi Alvin,

As maintainer of the validator I argue that you must support the query without
dates because it is part of the specification. As Fred points out, it is also
commonly used.

Cheers,
Simeon

Frederic.Merceur at ifremer.fr wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I guess you archive will have to be able to answer the 2 queries. 
> Indeed, when you will register your archive into an harvester, it will 
> fisrt run a complete harvest to get the backlog. So the harvester will 
> run the query that does not work on your archive.
> 
> http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc 
> 
> 
> Then, most of harvesters will run regulary some incremental harvesting 
> to get the records modified, deleted or added since the previous 
> harvest. To do so they will run the query with the from parameter.
> 
> http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2006-05-15 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Fred
> 
> 
> 
> "Hutchinson, Alvin" <HUTCHINSONA at si.edu> a écrit :
> 
>> I have been trying to run the conformance test for my repository as a
>> data provider using the tool at
>> openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html.
>>
>>
>>
>> I enter my URL and the site passes the first test. I click on the link
>> provided in the acknowledgement email and during phase two, the message
>> I get back is that my server is throwing an HTTP 500 error.
>>
>>
>>
>> And if I use the following link on my own:
>> http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix
>> =oai_dc
>>
>> I do indeed get an HTTP 500 error
>>
>>
>>
>> But when I include the timestamp as in:
>> http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix
>> =oai_dc&from=2006-05-15
>>
>> It returns the data seemingly without any problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> My oaicat.properties file contains the time stamp listed above
>> (2006-05-15) but the conformance test tool does not seem to recognize
>> it. Is there something else I need to do to conform, pass the validation
>> and set up my repository as a data provider?
>>
>>
>>
>> I have considered searching the OAI implementers archive but an
>> exhaustive search it would require opening each month's messages one at
>> a time (unless I'm missing something).
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>>
>>
>>
>> Alvin Hutchinson
>>
>> Smithsonian Institution Libraries
>>
>> (202) 633-1031
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
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