On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:18 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Plenty of good advice in this thread but don't be afraid to write a
> harvester yourself that meets your needs. It's good to avoid reinventing
> the wheel, but OAI-PMH is a really easy protocol to work with -- it's the
> same difficulty as retrieving a bunch of web pages. For simple jobs, it's
> often easier to just put something together yourself than adopt someone
> else's tool for your needs.
Great advice, thanks for mentioning it Kyle. HTTP is a pretty nice API itself, when you think about it … and language support for it is highly evolved.
//Ed
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