Dear Friend, I would like to know more about OAI-PMH feature in Koha. Can make use this feature to harvest metadata from a OA repository? Is it possible to search another repository through Koha OPAC? Now this feature read to use? With thanks, -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White
Hi Vimal, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Vimal Kumar <vimal0212@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to know more about OAI-PMH feature in Koha. Can make use this feature to harvest metadata from a OA repository?
Is it possible to search another repository through Koha OPAC? Now this feature read to use?
Koha 3.x can act as an OAI-PMH data provider. It currently cannot act as an OAI-PMH client to harvest other repositories, although it wouldn't be hard to write such support using the OAI-Harvester family of Perl modules [http://search.cpan.org/~thb/OAI-Harvester-1.13/] - the main thing missing is that MARC is the only metadata format that Koha indexes natively. A little more information about the OAI-PMH data provider support can be found at http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:oai-pmh . Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt
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