Great! Support for OAI-ORE sounds like a particularly nice addition :)
Would love to hear back from you when you release it.

Cheers,
Filipe Correia

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Mischael Schill
<mischael.sch...@switch.ch> wrote:
> On 12.03.2009, at 12:19, Filipe Correia wrote:
>> Is this an harvester meant to harvest external meta-data and
>> automatically ingest/update it in fedora? (hence, replicating the
>> meta-data on another repository)
>
> Thats right.
> It consists of the following parts:
> - An OAI-PMH client implementation library (finished)
> - The Harvester as a library (60% complete)
> - A WebService which uses the library
> - Possibly a Web UI
>
> The harvester itself will have the following features:
> - It is Protocol-Agnostic: You can easily add more "harvesting" and more
> "storing" protocols, so it isn't tied to Fedora or OAI-PMH but these are the
> protocols I'll implement.
> - Converting different metadata formats into others using xslt or custom
> java code.
> - Translation-tables: Translates the content of metadata fields. For example
> if the source uses another naming schema for the discipline-field.
> - One or more Metadata-Streams.
>
> Possible future features:
> - Non-XML data streams
> - Support for OAI-ORE
>
> I'm using standard Java 1.5 with JAX-WS, JAXB and Joda-Time (because
> java.util.Date and DateFormat is just evil).
> It needs at least Fedora 2 to work (Using the Fedora2Repository class which
> uses the SOAP-API). I'm implementing a Fedora3Repository using the REST API
> afterwards.
>
>> Or is it the other way around, and what it does is to harvest
>> meta-data provided by fedora's OAI-PMH service?
>
> By creating another "storing" protocol (called Repository inside the
> harvester, as opposed to Archive which is the harvesting protocol) this is
> easily done.
>
> Cheers,
> Mischael Schill
>

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