Hello Filipe, 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-developers mailing list Fedora-commons-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-developers
