Re: XC's OAI Toolkit on Google Code

From: Alejandro Garza Gonzalez <alejandro.garza_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:54:46 -0600
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On a side note, if you are using the Biblio module with Drupal, you can 
use the OAI-PMH module to expose those records via OAI.
 
  http://drupal.org/project/oai2

_alejandro

Vakil, Shreyansh said the following on 27/03/2009 02:25 p.m.:
> Hello
>
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>
> Good Afternoon!! 
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> The eXtensible Catalog (XC) OAI Toolkit repository is now available to
> the public for download at http://code.google.com/p/xcoaitoolkit. This
> project page, hosted by Google Code, is home to all the up-to-date
> information about the OAI Toolkit, it's downloads, documentation, bug
> reports, feature requests, most updated under-development code etc. of
> the XC OAI Toolkit. You will just need a Google account to access the
> project's code, bug tracking system and other features. 
>
> The OAI Toolkit is used to make data stored in an institution's ILS or
> other repository available for harvesting via OAI-PMH, including other
> eXtensible Catalog applications. For an ILS, this is accomplished by
> exporting ILS metadata, converting it from MARC to MARCXML, and loading
> it into an OAI-PMH compliant repository. The repository (embedded in the
> OAI Toolkit) makes the data available for harvesting by other XC
> components.
>
> The OAI Toolkit can be used as part of the XC system, or on its own to
> enable OAI-PMH harvestability of an existing repository. It is a server
> application written in Java and is only needed for ILS's and other
> repositories that do not already have the ability to be act as OAI-PMH
> Repositories (OAI Servers).
>
> Documentation for the OAI Toolkit can be found at the links below:
>
> *	OAI Toolkit Manual:
> http://xcoaitoolkit.googlecode.com/files/OAIToolkitManual_v25.pdf
> *	Release Notes:
> http://xcoaitoolkit.googlecode.com/files/OAIToolkitReleaseNotes_v9.pdf
>
> You can download the OAI importer and OAI server zip files from the
> Downloads tab at http://code.google.com/p/xcoaitoolkit/downloads/list.
> The OAI Toolkit Manual would be a good help in installing the OAI
> Toolkit and then you would be ready to run the OAI Toolkit. 
>
> The software code repository for the OAI Toolkit could be checked out
> from SVN at https://xcoaitoolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tags
> <https://xcoaitoolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tags> . 
>
> OAI Toolkit is in a good stable condition at the moment, but still it is
> under development solving the bug fixes and catering to the feature
> requests to make it more efficient and stable. The Google bug tracking
> system of the OAI Toolkit currently contains the outstanding bugs and
> the feature requests
> (http://code.google.com/p/xcoaitoolkit/issues/list). If you have any
> suggestions, feature requests, or bugs reports we invite you to submit
> them to the Google bug tracker system. 
>
> For those interested in up-to the minute development, you could checkout
> the most current OAI Toolkit code under development from SVN at
> https://xcoaitoolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
> <https://xcoaitoolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk> . 
>
> More information about downloading the Google code and SVN, you can go
> under the Source tab at
> http://code.google.com/p/xcoaitoolkit/source/checkout
>
> I am one of the developers working on the OAI Toolkit in the eXtensible
> Catalog(XC) project. Please feel free to contact me with any questions
> or concerns. 
>
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>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Shrey Vakil
>
> Software Developer
>
> eXtensible Catalog Project
>
> University of Rochester
>
> (585) 273-1979
>
> svakil_at_library.rochester.edu
>
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