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Monday, March 30, 2009

Toolkit for sharing records via OAI-PMH

Shreyansh Vakil, XC's OAI Toolkit on Google Code, Code for Libraries list, March 27, 2009. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)

The eXtensible Catalog (XC) OAI Toolkit repository is now available to the public for download at [here]. ...

The OAI Toolkit is used to make data stored in an institution's [integrated library system] or other repository available for harvesting via OAI-PMH, including other eXtensible Catalog applications. ...

The OAI Toolkit can be used as part of the XC system, or on its own to enable OAI-PMH harvestability of an existing repository. It is a server application written in Java and is only needed for ILS's and other repositories that do not already have the ability to be act as OAI-PMH Repositories (OAI Servers). ...