[SPTUsers] SPT hierarchy feeds, use OAI?

[Edward Almasy]

On Wed, Apr 14, at 04:03:01AM, John Isenhour wrote:
> 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?

   The OAI support in SPT is just for serving records via OAI -- it does
   not include an OAI client (harvester) at this time.  (OAI client support
   is something that's come up a few times, but there are still a number
   of features ahead of it at this point.)

   Of the above options, I would say that export/transfer/import is likely
   the best choice right now, transferring via rsync or scp or whatever
   other option best suits your environment.

   I'm curious:  Why set up multiple SPT installations, instead of having
   everyone contribute directly to one SPT-based site?

   Ed


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