[SPTUsers] SPT hierarchy feeds, use OAI?

[John Isenhour]

I am looking into ways of setting up a set of scout instantiations at 
various state U.'s whos metadata would be harvestable into a central 
"Big Scout" to create a pooled resource finding aid where the metadata 
would point back to local resources. 

Assuming there would be nothing but metadata in the harvested records, 
should I be looking at using the builtin OAI harvester construct, with 
the real question being can the OAI harvested metadata be loaded 
easily/automagically into the Big Scout?  Or should I be looking at php 
sockets, or a local automated export with something like rsync?

Anybody working on something like this?

tnx,
-john

John Isenhour, Ph.D.
Director Information Technology
Kennesaw State University