SUNScholar/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.

Step 4 - Schedule automatic harvesting updates

Go to the "control panel" and select the automatic harvesting of the collections so that the collections are properly synchronised in future after the initial harvest.

See screenshot below.

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