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

Hagedorn, Kat khage at umich.edu
Tue Jul 28 14:54:25 EDT 2009


Hello Robert and Stéphane,

Thank you for this-- I had forgotten about the International Repositories
wiki, until you reminded me. I'm guessing most folks out there roll their
own currently, as each aggregator needs records for different reasons.

I will pass this along,
Many thanks,
 -Kat


On 7/28/09 11:50 AM, "Robert Robertson" <robert.robertson at strath.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Kat,
> 
> I'm not aware of any lists and you're probably already familiar with these
> 'lists', but as a starting point:
> 
> There's the handout on OAI tools from Metascholar (2005) -
> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/silvi003/codenotes//OAIToolsFinal.pdf
> Though it predates ARC from ODU (2006) http://oaiarc.sourceforge.net/
> 
> http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/tools/tools.php lists some harvesters among
> the repository software listed (this amalgamated list may be the best current
> list but it's dated in 2006 as well).
> 
> Hopefully someone knows of a more current list.
> 
> Of possible interest though:
> the repinf wiki / International Repositories Infrastructure wiki has lists of
> harvesters:
> http://repinf.pbworks.com/Harvesters+-+national+and+international
> http://repinf.pbworks.com/Harvesters+-+subject-+or+discipline-based
> 
> depending on what sort of information you're looking for - working back from
> these could give an indication of what's in use and how much people are
> growing their own software.
> 
> Cheers,
> john
> 
> --
> R. John Robertson
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> University of Strathclyde
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org
> [mailto:oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org] On Behalf Of Hagedorn, Kat
> Sent: 28 July 2009 16:12
> To: OAI-implementers at openarchives.org
> Subject: [OAI-implementers] List of tools used to harvest OAI metadata
> 
> 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
> 
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> http://www.dlxs.org/
> email: khage at umich.edu
> phone: 734-615-7618
> 
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