Recently, the University of Florida set up a free download link to the metadata of their digital objects. Does anyone know of other schools/institutions following suit? Please let me know, as I'd like to learn more about the implementation of this feature.
Libraries offering OAI-PMH metadata for digitized objects?
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Oof. I know our digital collections do it, but I don't know the OAI URL off the top of my head, and I do know you wouldn't want to copy our spaghetti implementation (we're in the process of rearchitecting).
What form does your metadata live in natively? If it's XML, then crosswalking to OAI's Dublin Core profile should be doable. Also, is this a static or growing collection? If the former, you can do the work once and expose the result as a static OAI endpoint.
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Can you give a link to the downloadable metadata on the UF site? I poked around and didn't find it. Many systems (e.g., DSpace, Omeka and others) expose metadata for 'harvesting' but it sounds like you're talking about something else.
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dana
MemberReplying to @Wally Grotophorst's post:
@Wally The link University of Florida provides goes to an enormous XML file download, which is not optimal, in my opinion. I'm more in favor of the Library of Congress method, which breaks the returns down into increments of 200 objects. Here's the UFL page: http://www.digital.uflib.ufl.edu/index.htm .
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dana
MemberReplying to @Dorothea Salo's post:
@Dorothea I'm the Project Manager for NINES, an aggregator of resources in nineteenth-century studies online (nines.org). We're benefiting from the availability of MARC XML from the LOC and UFL and I'd like to expand our collections to any library offering them.
Alas, it is very difficult to find them - and I suspect this is because of the very reason you supplied, that they are still under construction. My goal is to aggregate superior collections that are freely offered *and* learn enough about the process so that I can recommend it as a practice to our scholarly contributors.
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Is this the page you meant to link to:
http://digital.uflib.ufl.edu/digitalservices/
I see the OAI base URL listed there:
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/sobekcm_oai.aspx?
Will poke around to see what it supports.
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dana
MemberReplying to @Wally Grotophorst's post:
My apologies, Wally, I provided the wrong link:
http://digital.uflib.ufl.edu/digitalservices/
Here's the full XML link:
http://digital.uflib.ufl.edu/development/endeca/endeca.xml
(will crash Firefox)
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The endeca link will crash Safari too...as will the MARCXML link they provide in another spot on that page :)
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Although not a librarian, I know that at least a few Library CMSs support OAI-PMH. I've used the ruby
oaigem to interact with the built-in OAI service, and while I'm delighted with the code library, I'm a bit annoyed by the user-unfriendliness of the contents (especially the set naming conventions on Archive.org).For example, UIowa runs ContentDM, so their API url is http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cgi-bin/oai.exe. Here's an example of what you can scrape from it on my dev machine: (click soon, this link may die) and here's the source code that presents it: controller views. It's also pretty easy to just browse the repository via
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Conal Tuohy
MemberThe New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, where I once worked, offers an OAI-PMH feed of their collection of TEI-encoded documents as a "Static Repository", which can be accessed by standard OAI-PMH clients via a "Static Repository Gateway". The SRG technique is well worth looking into as a lightweight mechanism for supporting OAI-PMH.
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Many institutions providing metadata through OAI-PMH creating a listing in a registry such as the one at Illinois (which you can browse). Institutions listed here are likely to have their data harvested by OAIster and other such projects that take advantage of OAI-PMH.
As for what software can be an OAI-PMH provider, it's true that ContentDM and other software has this built in. Provider software is also included in the UMich OAI Toolkit.
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