Islandora OAI

Overview

This module provides an implementation the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) for Islandora fedora repository with a Solr index. By implementing the islanodra_oa module, you can expose content (its metadata) as an OAI-PMH repository. It will then be accessible by OAI harvesters. For further OAI documentation, please see: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

Functions

• Receive OAI-PMH request of service providers in form of HTTP request (GET or POST)
• Handle the OAI-PMH request
• Respond to OAI-PMH request in form of HTTP response (XML) to the service provider

Installation

1. Copy the module directory to your modules directory.
2.  Browse to admin/modules and enable the islandora_oai module, the module will report success or failure of the installation.
3.  Browse to admin/settings/islandora_oai to set the basic configuration of your repository
4. After you have exposed content types and some fields, your repository is available at /oai2
5. Example requests are as follows:
   
   1. /oai2?verb=Identify
   2. /oai2?verb=ListMetadataFormats (only oai_dc currently supported)
   3. /oai2?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
   4. /oai2?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=PID
   5. /oai2?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

Dependencies

Islandora.ca modules:

• Islandora Solr Search
• Islandora Repository
• Islandora Content Model Forms
• Islandora XML Forms 
• Islandora XML Form API 
• Islandora XML Form Builder 
• Islandora XML Form Elements 
• Islandora XML Schema API
• Objective Forms
• PHP Lib 
• Tabs
  
  

Drupal.org modules:

• jQuery Update 
• jQuery UI