[OAI-implementers] suggestions for Data Provider implementation

[Brad Rhoads]

I'm a satisfied customer :)! Some more docs would have been nice, but
it's a good system.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Young,Jeff (OR)<jyoung at oclc.org> wrote:
> Coincidently, my quote of the day yesterday was Shakespeare: "How my
> achievements mock me!"
>
> Sadly, "it took some time to figure out" is too true. When Thom Hickey
> wrote a compliant OAI-PMH implementation with 2 pages of Python my folly
> was made clear. It takes just as much code to customize and configure
> OAICat as it does to write an OAI repository from scratch.
>
> http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/2page.htm
>
> I feel very bad about this, but I only have time these days to fix bugs
> in OAICat. I hope the people I disappoint can forgive me.
>
> Jeff
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org [mailto:oai-
>> implementers-bounces at openarchives.org] On Behalf Of Brad Rhoads
>> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 4:07 PM
>> To: David Bietila
>> Cc: oai-implementers at openarchives.org
>> Subject: Re: [OAI-implementers] suggestions for Data Provider
>> implementation
>>
>> I'm using OIACAT
>> (http://pubserv.oclc.org/oaicat/jars/docs/index.html). It took some
>> time to figure it out, but in the end, I ended up writing very little
>> custom code.
>>
>> You could also look at
>> http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/2page.htm
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:34 AM, David
> Bietila<bietila at gelman.gwu.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Our site is seeking to quickly deploy a standalone OAI Data
> Provider.
>> The records we need to include will be in MARCXML, so support for that
>> format would be a requirement. I'd like to ask for recommendations on
>> existing data provider tools that we could download and install for
> use
>> here. Applications that require relatively minimal customization for
>> use would be a plus. I appreciate any suggestions you can offer.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > David
>> >
>> > David Bietila
>> > Head of Web Services
>> > Gelman Library
>> > George Washington University
>> > 2130 H. St. NW
>> > Washington, DC 20052
>> > 202-994-0684
>> >
>> >
>> >
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