[Isis-users] ABCD and OAI : any experiences ?

[Guilda Ascencio]

In respect to OAI if what they want is gather information what you need is a
client for harvesting and a procedure to import in a Isis database the XML
records harvested. Actually ABCD have no xml importing.

Guilda





2010/12/5 Guilda Ascencio <gascencio at msinfo.info>

> Egbert.
>
> I tried once to implement the OAI interface that comes with ABCD and could
> not make it work. It works only with marc and cepal databases, the search is
> not implemented, so it recovers only by mfn and other issues of the protocol
> are not implemented. Also the windows where the results are shown is to
> small; I think is better to show the results in a full windows.
>
>  I began to fix the problems. Actually is pending:
>
>    1. Improve the search mechanism by date
>    2. Improve the  XML produced so that the site pass the validation
>    tested in http://www.openarchives.org/Register/ValidateSite
>    3. Work in the configuration module so that any structure can be linked
>    with the interface. Actually the configuration is inside the scripts
>
> Regards,
>
> Guilda
>
>
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> 2010/12/5 De Smet Egbert <egbert.desmet at ua.ac.be>
>
>>  Has anybody testing/trying/using ABCD tried the OAI interface ? Any
>> feedback or experience would be welcome.
>> The pan-African network 'ODINAFRICA', working with marine and
>> oceanographic information, has shown interest to start using ABCD - after my
>> presentation to their experts - but full OAI functionality is crucial : they
>> want to be able to gather/collect data from the dispersed catalogs and
>> databases for inclusion into their own repository and central catalog using
>> OAI-PMH.
>>
>> Egbert de Smet
>> University of Antwerp, Belgium
>>
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