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According to this:

<http://www.vtls.com/pressrelease/ISSN-International-Centre-Implements-New-Data-Distribution-Services-Using-Enhanced-Version-of-OAI-PMH-Protocol-Custom-Developed-by-VTLS-75>

Virtua already supports OAI-PMH. Are you sure you just haven't poked
around enough? Or called VTLS support?
Ro

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Demian Katz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm aware of at least two Virtua libraries currently using VuFind:  USQ (http://library.usq.edu.au/) and the National Library of Ireland (http://catalogue.nli.ie/).  VuFind is currently bundled with a copy of USQ's Virtua driver, so it should be possible to get things up and running with minimal code changes, assuming your Virtua instance is reasonably similar to USQ's.
>
> If you want to get more information, I'd recommend posting to the vufind-general mailing list (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-general).  The National Library of Ireland team is pretty active there, so you should be able to get some details on their experience if you ask.
>
> - Demian
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Nathan Tallman
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:25 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OIA Feeds
>>
>> Thank you everyone for your replies.
>>
>> Right now, I'm just exploring the options for a potential project. We
>> need
>> to make our MARC records available as Dublin Core via OAI-PMH. We don't
>> have
>> a digital repository or similar infrastructure at the moment, so I'll
>> take a
>> look at the OAI Static Repository documentation.
>>
>> I'd really like to upgrade our catalog to something like VuFind (no
>> worries
>> about maintaining a static repository any more), but I haven't had time
>> to
>> explore hooking VuFind into our existing Virtua database. It'd probably
>> be
>> more efficient to just figure out and implement VuFind because of the
>> host
>> of other benefits.
>>
>> Thanks again. If anyone's using VuFind as a discovery interface to a
>> Virtua
>> backend, let me know!
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Nathan Tallman <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Greetings list,
>> >
>> > Can anyone direct me towards documentation on creating an OAI feed
>> from
>> > scratch, without a repository infrastructure?
>> >
>> > Many thanks!
>> >
>> > Nathan Tallman
>> > Associate Archivist
>> > American Jewish Archives
>> >
>