Good day, all! Pascal's Harvesting Python scripts are a very interesting project that I appeal to us all to possibly carry on by supporting, contributing to the repo, and growing it to more sophistication. Like we may open a conversation on GitHub about what we would like to see in the repo scripts functionality, and also maybe post their the inquiries and queries to make it a growing open source tool and project.
Thank you. Regards On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 11:32 AM Fatih Güneş <[email protected]> wrote: > Pascal, thank you very much for sharing the roadmap. I got a Ds Repo Anadolu > Univ Dspace <https://acikerisim.anadolu.edu.tr/home> which I ingested the > content using OpenAlex API. So all items have OpenAlex work id. Can I use > FedHarv to harvest and upload bitsteams to the items? > Is there a specific configuration to use it only for pdfs/bitstreams? > Is there a command to use it for this purpose? > Or should I fork the project and modify to use it this way? > > Best regards, > Fatih. > > On Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 6:16:25 AM UTC+3 Pascal Calarco wrote: > >> Hi Fatih, >> >> Thank you for reaching out. A bit of context before I address your >> question. >> >> My Institution ist Part of a DSpace consortium in Canada, known as >> Scholaris. I wanted to release this now because research funders in Canada >> will soon release a revised immediate (0 day) open access publication >> policy, and I expect many of our researchers will take advantage of the >> transformative agreements our library has with publishers (Plan S) and so >> much more of Canadian scholarly output will be available under a Creative >> Commons license. We need a tool to help manage this incoming deluxe, as the >> policy strongly encourages deposit in IRs. >> >> Yes, we have a group working on Configurable Entities, which we expect to >> implement after we upgrade to DSpace 9, this summer. >> >> It would make much sense to evolve FedHarv to use Configurable Entities >> once in place, certainly for authors and departments. ORCID integration >> also opens up with this release, which Is like to incorporate as well. >> >> All best regards, >> >> Pascal >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2026, 18:26 Fatih Güneş <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Pascal, >>> Thank you very much for sharing your work. I have been maintaining >>> nearly 12 dspace instances in different univs and I am trying to >>> standardize my automation scripts for ingesting items into dspace using >>> REST APIs. Your project is definitely getting my attention. I will give it >>> a try very soon. One question: Have you considered supporting Entity Model >>> for your project? >>> Best regards, >>> Fatih >>> >>> On Friday, March 27, 2026 at 10:48:26 PM UTC+3 Pascal Calarco wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I am releasing a set of Python scripts I have been working on since >>>> last late November called FedHarv (short for federated harvesting). Its >>>> available now publicly under an AGPL v.3 license for all to use, modify and >>>> build upon, provided it stays as free and open source software. >>>> >>>> https://github.com/pvcalarco/FedHarv >>>> >>>> FedHarv is a sophisticated, production-ready federated harvester for >>>> open access academic content, designed to automatically discover, enrich, >>>> and harvest scholarly articles with PDF availability from multiple sources. >>>> >>>> The problem we are trying to provide a solution for is to to the extent >>>> possible, identify Creative Commons-licensed scholarly works (journal >>>> articles, letters to the editor, retractions, errata, book chapters, >>>> conference proceedings, and open access books) that are authored by >>>> researchers, faculty and students of an institution of higher education or >>>> research, harvest the metadata and associated PDF from a variety of API >>>> services. Where we can't find a non-paywalled version, we use Unpaywall >>>> to identify author manuscripts and preprints that can be deposited. >>>> >>>> The script then provides these metadata and PDFs in a series of folders >>>> for the repository manager to quickly check (for departmental and >>>> institutional affiliation and CC license correctness), package these up >>>> into Simple Archive Format (SAF), ready for batch ingest into DSpace >>>> institutional repositories. >>>> >>>> The harvester isn't perfect and you should still check to make sure >>>> closed or bronze OA items were not harvested in error, but the author has >>>> made every effort to do so and has encountered few such errors after much >>>> iteration over this. >>>> >>>> With this tool, you'll be able to gather together as much of the Open >>>> Access scholarly works that your community has formally written and legally >>>> deposit these into your organization's institutional repository. If you >>>> find this software useful, please drop me an email! >>>> >>>> ## 🤖 AI Assistance & Authorship Disclosure >>>> >>>> **FedHarv** was designed, architected, and verified by **Pascal >>>> Calarco**. >>>> >>>> During the development process, AI-augmented coding tools (Google >>>> Gemini and GitHub Copilot) were utilized to: >>>> * Generate boilerplate code and initial function structures. >>>> * Refactor logic for performance (e.g., implementing multi-threading). >>>> * Assist with documentation, licensing (AGPL-v3), and testing suites. >>>> >>>> All AI-generated suggestions have been manually reviewed, tested, and >>>> integrated by the author to ensure technical accuracy, >>>> scholarly metadata standards, and adherence to best practices in >>>> library and information science. >>>> >>>> All best wishes, >>>> >>>> Pascal >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *Pascal Calarco*¦ Scholarly Communications Librarian and Systems >>>> Librarian >>>> >>>> Lead, Discovery Team >>>> >>>> Research & Publishing Services Unit >>>> Librarian IV >>>> >>>> University of Windsor ¦ J. 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