[OAI-implementers] List of tools used to harvest OAI metadata

Thu Aug 13 05:29:34 EDT 2009

Hi All,
Since this thread still seems alive, let me post some of the OAI 
software we've developed.
There's pyoai, which provides a client and server implementation in 
python. It's been developed in 2003 and quite mature.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyoai/
A simple oai client can be written as follows:
=========
from oaipmh.client import Client
from oaipmh.metadata import MetadataRegistry
from lxml import etree
URL = 'http://<some oai feed>'
registry = MetadataRegistry()
class Reader(object):
 def __call__(self, element):
 return etree.tostring(element, pretty_print=True, encoding='UTF8')
registry.registerReader('oai_dc', Reader())
client = Client(URL, registry)
for count, record in enumerate(client.listRecords(metadataPrefix='oai_dc')):
 header = record[0]
 metadata = record[1] or ''
 print '%4d: harvested %s, %s bytes' % (count,
 header.identifier(),
 len(metadata))
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There's also MOAI, which is a server platform that also can harvest oai 
data. It's also based on pyoai, but overkill if you're just looking for 
a simple client.
http://moai.infrae.com
Kind Regards,
Jasper
Hagedorn, Kat wrote:
> All,
>> This may be a stupid question, but does anyone know of a list of tools used
> to harvest OAI metadata? I know of ours
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/umoaitoolkit/>, naturally, but I wasn't
> able to come up with others by perusing the obvious web sites. Even if
> there's no list, I'd be interested in individual suggestions.
>> Thanks,
> -Kat
>> -------------------
> Kat Hagedorn 
> OAIster/Metadata Harvesting Librarian
> Digital Library Production Service
> University of Michigan
>> http://www.oaister.org/
> http://www.dlxs.org/
> email: khage at umich.edu
> phone: 734-615-7618
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