SUNScholar/Remote Harvest

Back to Harvesting

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Step 1 - Create a collection to receive harvested items

Go to the community that will host the collection and create the collection as normal.

Step 2 - Configure the collection for harvesting

Now select the collection as a collection that will harvest items from another repository.

See screenshot below.

Step 3 - Begin harvesting

Click on the "Start" harvest button.

Further Help

Web URL

To harvest information from our repository, please use the following base URL:

http://scholar.sun.ac.za/oai/request

To view the data, click on the link below.

http://scholar.sun.ac.za/oai/request?verb=Identify

How to harvest other repository collections

• http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-harvester.htm
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/XMLUI+Configuration+and+Customization#XMLUIConfigurationandCustomization-HarvestingItemsfromXMLUIviaOAI-OREorOAI-PMH
• https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/harvesting-the-okr

OAI Check

• http://validator.oaipmh.com
• http://re.cs.uct.ac.za
• http://www.openarchives.org/Register/ValidateSite

References

• http://www.openarchives.org/pmh
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Metadata_Harvesting
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAI-PMH
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAI-ORE

DSpace Help

• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Use+the+OAI-PMH+interface
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/OAI+2.0+Server

Installations

• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/OaiInstallations