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OAI-PMH Server Maintenance

After activating the OAI-PMH server, you need to also ensure its index is updated on a regular basis.  Currently, this doesn't happen automatically within DSpace.  Instead, you must schedule the [dspace.dir]/bin/dspace oai import commandline tool to run on a regular basis (usually at least nightly, but you could schedule it more frequently).

Here's an example cron that can be used to schedule an OAI-PMH reindex on a nightly basis (for a full list of recommended DSpace cron tasks see Scheduled Tasks via Cron):

# Update the OAI-PMH index with the newest content (and re-optimize that index) at midnight every day
# NOTE: ONLY NECESSARY IF YOU ARE RUNNING OAI-PMH 
# (This ensures new content is available via OAI-PMH and ensures the OAI-PMH index is optimized for better performance)
0 0 * * * [dspace.dir]/bin/dspace oai import -o > /dev/null

OAI-PMH / OAI-ORE Harvester (Client)

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