topic Re: Open Archives in Alfresco Archive

Open Archives

hotnuts21 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:31:36 GMT

Does anyone know if anyone is doing any work on OAI-PMH for Alfresco? A google search doesnt really turn up much but old forum posts which didnt have much help anyway.We are looking to open our Alfresco repository (or some of it ) through the medium of OAI-PMH, but not sure where to start!ThanksPaul

Re: Open Archives

zaizi — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:01:16 GMT

It should be quite easy to implement in Alfresco. What system is going to read your OAI-PMH?

Ainga

Re: Open Archives

hotnuts21 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:06:39 GMT

We work in the Heritage sector and some people want to have access to our data via OAI-PMH, and as we are currently just deploying Alfresco it makes sense to use Alfresco to serve up this content. In the words of the Open Archives, we would be a 'repository', that exposes our extended content model (dublin core + more) for other organisations to harvest, as well as to share with our other systems eventually.

From the Open Archives Site
"Data Providers are repositories that expose structured metadata via OAI-PMH. Service Providers then make OAI-PMH service requests to harvest that metadata. OAI-PMH is a set of six verbs or services that are invoked within HTTP."

thanks for your interest
Paul