Tips on using the OAI-PMH service ?

alcoma

Hello,
Wondering if it is possible to use the OAI-PMH service in Collective Access with OCLC's WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway ?
Anyone have experiences with setting up the exporter and using the OAI-PMH service in C/A they can share ?
Thank you.

monica

alcoma should be able to be harvested by OCLC, information here on creating the metadata crosswalks for them. https://help.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/Digital_Collection_Gateway/Use_the_Digital_Collection_Gateway/020Collection_configuration_and_metadata_crosswalking
What is it you need to know in particular?

monica

alcoma CA documentation is here https://docs.collectiveaccess.org/providence/user/export/oaipmh_provider

alcoma

Thanks Monica. I just don't know where to begin; like creating the DublinCore exporter needed by C/A ? Is there a template for that ? Is this service enabled simply by setting it in the config doc ?

monica

alcoma there is no Dublin core XML export template publicly available. I could find one for you when I’m at my computer. Obviously, each collection is different, so the export crosswalk will be different for your collection.
You will need to edit the conf to enable the OAI-PMH interface to work too.

alcoma

That would be super helpful if you can find a template to share. Thanks.