[OAI-implementers] List of tools used to harvest OAI metadata

[Mark Jordan]

I'd also like to mention the PKP Metadata Harvester(http://pkp.sfu.ca/harvester),  which provides a extensible, LAMP aggregator/search application against OAI-PMH data providers (inc. static repositories) emitting DC, MODS, MARCXML, and ETDMS.

Mark

Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
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mjordan at sfu.ca

----- "Jasper Op de Coul" <jasper at infrae.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Since this thread still seems alive, let me post some of the OAI 
> software we've developed.
> 
> There's pyoai, which provides a client and server implementation in 
> python. It's been developed in 2003 and quite mature.
> 
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyoai/
> 
> A simple oai client can be written as follows:
> 
> =========
> 
> from oaipmh.client import Client
> from oaipmh.metadata import MetadataRegistry
> from lxml import etree
> 
> URL = 'http://<some oai feed>'
> 
> registry = MetadataRegistry()
> 
> class Reader(object):
>      def __call__(self, element):
>          return etree.tostring(element, pretty_print=True,
> encoding='UTF8')
> 
> registry.registerReader('oai_dc', Reader())
> 
> client = Client(URL, registry)
> 
> for count, record in
> enumerate(client.listRecords(metadataPrefix='oai_dc')):
>      header = record[0]
>      metadata = record[1] or ''
>      print '%4d: harvested %s, %s bytes' % (count,
>                                             header.identifier(),
>                                             len(metadata))
> 
> ====
> 
> There's also MOAI, which is a server platform that also can harvest
> oai 
> data. It's also based on pyoai, but overkill if you're just looking
> for 
> a simple client.
> 
> http://moai.infrae.com
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Jasper
> 
> Hagedorn, Kat wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > This may be a stupid question, but does anyone know of a list of
> tools used
> > to harvest OAI metadata? I know of ours
> > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/umoaitoolkit/>, naturally, but I
> wasn't
> > able to come up with others by perusing the obvious web sites. Even
> if
> > there's no list, I'd be interested in individual suggestions.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >  -Kat
> > 
> > -------------------
> > Kat Hagedorn 
> > OAIster/Metadata Harvesting Librarian
> > Digital Library Production Service
> > University of Michigan
> > 
> > http://www.oaister.org/
> > http://www.dlxs.org/
> > email: khage at umich.edu
> > phone: 734-615-7618
> > 
> > 
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