Seeing as how I wrote this OAI provider from scratch in Perl, riding on top
of the code I wrote to serve up the site, it's quite likely to be buggy:
http://freelargephotos.com/oai.cgi?verb=Identify
Dubious, certainly, if not buggy.
Roy
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Conal Tuohy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kia ora Stuart!
>
> You may be interested in a couple of OAI-PMH providers I wrote not that
> long ago.
>
> The code is here: https://github.com/Conal-Tuohy/Retailer and there are a
> few posts about it on my blog http://conaltuohy.com/
>
> Note that the providers are not available online publicly, but you can set
> them up yourself without much effort. The data they provide is sourced
> externally, via a web API, and in that sense the implementations are
> certainly "different". They are stateless transforming web proxies,
> translating between OAI-PMH and upstream custom Web APIs, implemented as
> XSLT stylesheets hosted in a simple Java-based web server called Retailer.
>
> The upstream data providers are the digital newspaper collections of the
> National Libraries of New Zealand and Australia.
>
> The content types supported are also unusual; as well as the mandatory
> oai_dc, both the OAI-PMH providers provide records in XHTML format. These
> records are in fact the full text of the newspaper articles, with basic
> metadata embedded in the HTML head.
>
> In addition, they also proxy the native data formats provided by the
> upstream API ("trove" and "digitalnz"), with a few minor changes, such as
> to add the XML namespaces required by the OAI-PMH spec.
>
> A couple of years ago I wrote an OAI-PMH endpoint for a local instance of
> the archaeological repository software tDAR. This is written in Java, using
> the Struts framework. Here it is on the American tDAR site:
> https://core.tdar.org/oai-pmh/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats which provides
> MODS.
>
> Further to Bernadette's suggestion of RIF-CS (research metadata) from
> Deakin, you can also reharvest this metadata, and metadata from other
> providers, from the Australian federal agency ANDS. See
> http://developers.ands.org.au/services/collections-registry-api/oai/
>
> You probably already have this one: the EAC-CPF records available from the
> National Library of Australia:
> http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/peopleaustralia-oai/OAIHandler
>
> Con
>
> On 7 November 2014 08:53, Stuart A. Yeates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a unusual OAI endpoints (different implementations,
> > different metadata schemes or extensions to schemes, different
> > structures, unusual content types, etc) to test against. I'm aware of
> > the list a couple of mainstream lists of which
> > http://www.base-search.net/about/en/about_sources_date_dn.php?menu=2
> > is the most comprehensive the and the live demos of dspace, eprints
> > and fedora. But I'm looking for more obscure installs and corner
> > cases.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any other candidates?
> >
> > Implementations known to be buggy, broken or dubious especially welcome
> :)
> >
> > I'll publish a list of endpoints I find useful.
> >
> > cheers
> > stuart
> >
>
