Harvesting Metadata Using OAI-PMH

Please note: this is an extremely focused list of resources that are mostly being mentioned or described in the Internet Librarian 2004 workshop, Harvesting Metadata Using OAI-PMH, and should be seen as only a starting point for further investigation.

General Information

• Open Archives Initiative - http://www.openarchives.org/
• OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting - http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
• Open Archives Forum OAI Tutorial - http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/
• OAI General Mailing List - http://www.openarchives.org/mailman/listinfo/oai-general
• DLF OAI Best Practices Working Group - http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/

Finding/Exploring OAI Repositories

• OCLC OAI Viewer - http://errol.oclc.org/
• UIUC Registry - http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/

Software Useful for Harvesting

• PKP Harvester - http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/pkp-harvester/
• Spotfire DecisionSite - http://www.spotfire.com/products/decision.asp
• SWISH-E Indexing Software - http://swish-e.org/
• Virginia Tech Perl Harvester - http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/odl/software/harvest/

Sample Data Providers

• California Digital Library- http://oai.cdlib.org/
  • Description - http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/repository/harvest/
• Library of Congress- http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0
  • Description - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oamh/lcoa1_content.html

Sample Service Providers

• California Digital Library Harvesting Project - http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/harvesting/
• OAIster.org - http://www.oaister.org/