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Hi Tom,

Thank you very much for this link.  I will add it to the tool.

cheers!
cricket!

On 3/6/2012 12:06 PM, Habing, Thomas Gerald wrote:
> You might also want to look here, http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/, which allows you to interactively explore an OAI provider, and it can also run a suite of tests against an OAI provider.
>
> Tom
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Cricket
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:48 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] OAI Provider Testing Tool
>>
>> Dear Code4Lib,
>>
>> This is a simple one page web form that creates correctly formatted OAI
>> requests that appear as live links on the page.  All code is html and javascript
>> contained in the one file.
>>
>> There is a menu for switching between different base URLs because we have
>> multiple providers and test platforms.
>>
>> I have followed the rules set out in
>> http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm#Protocol.
>> ..
>>
>> There are links on the web page to help the user quickly locate specific terms
>> and rules from openarchives.org.
>>
>> I try to catch errors that occur as the web form is filled out, but no
>> guarantees!
>>
>> This webpage is at:
>>
>> http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/oai/testOAI/
>>
>> Feel free to use in place or to download and revise to suit your own needs.
>>
>> cheers!
>> Cricket Deane
>