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[EP-tech] Re: OAI-PMH

Couldn't you achieve something similar by:

1- running an advanced search with your project code,
2- exporting it to the format of interest to you,
3- keeping track of the generated URL (in (2)) and use that to retrieve further data, with another project code? 

Remember that OAI is an harvesting interface:
1- it will page stuff (resumptionToken) so your code will have to support pagination of results 
2- available formats are "Open Access" friendly (dc, mets, ...)

Just a suggestion :)

Seb.

On 04/07/14 15:59, Andrew Beeken wrote:

Actually, this is quite handy - one of the things we¹re looking to do
would require us being able to search for outputs using a given project
code; with this I can define the project code and add it to the endpoint!
Thanks for this!

On 04/07/2014 14:34, "Ian Stuart" <Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk> wrote:


On 04/07/14 14:20, Andrew Beeken wrote:

Hello all!

Right, I¹m stepping into the murky waters of using our OAI-PMH
endpoint to doŠ stuff! Basically a bit experimental at the moment. I
can get it to return a list of records as well as a specific record
based on a record ID, however, what I would like to be able to do is
some kind of rudimentary query, say, pass in a user ID in the query
string to return a list of records associated with that author?

As Seb says, OAI-PMH is a harvesting system, not a query system

In essence, what you have is a set of canned searches that return a list
of results.

You can certainly search for authors - in cfg/cfgd/oai.pl

$oai->{sets} = [
   ....
   { id=>"creators", allow_null=>0, fields=>"creators_name"},
   ....
];

But have a good look at what the
http://<your.server.address/cgi/oai2?verb=ListSets returns (and there's
a reason for those bloody horrible SetNames)

--

Ian Stuart.
Developer: ORI, RJ-Broker, and OpenDepot.org
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.

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