Thanks for sharing this - good to know about. We do something similar with
the JMS and Solr, and we use it to display Fedora content in VuFind (also
using the Summon API to display Summon content in the same app).
http://library.brown.edu/find
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Conal Tuohy <conal.tu...@versi.edu.au>wrote:
> **
> For getting updates of data from Fedora for an external discovery system,
> OAI-PMH may actually be a good option, but here's an alternative:
>
> For a project I worked on last year, I wrote a small Java utility program
> called Fedora Update Handler, for receiving update notifications from
> Fedora, using Java Messaging Service (in much the same way that Fedora's
> Generic Search does). This program receives update notifications (which are
> Atom XML messages) from Fedora and simply passes them on to an arbitrary
> program you specify. So it's a way to bridge from JMS to some command-line
> app or script; we wrote a bunch of scripts in XProc (W3C XML pipeline
> language), and some in Windows JScript, but you could use bash or whatever
> you prefer.
>
> That script would then download to download a datastream from Fedora and
> process it; extract, transform, and store the results somewhere else.
>
> The utility has an Apache licence, and it's freely available on Google
> Code:
>
> Download of the executable program:
> http://ands-la-trobe.googlecode.com/files/fedora-update-handler.zip
>
> User documentation:
> http://ands-la-trobe.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fedora-update-handler/index.html
>
> Source code:
> http://ands-la-trobe.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fedora-update-handler/
>
> Javadoc:
> http://ands-la-trobe.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fedora-update-handler/docs/au/edu/latrobe/fedora/FedoraUpdateHandler.html
>
> I hope you find it helpful!
>
> Con
>
>
> On 23/02/12 02:18, p.n.spr...@lse.ac.uk wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Does anyone have experience of using Fedora with Summon (or similar,
> e.g. EBSCO Discovery Service, WorldCat Local, Primo, or Encore) that
> they could share, please?
>
>
>
> The LSE has recently launched its Digital Library (DL) using Fedora /
> Hydra. The Library are investigating the use of Summon to cross search
> the OPAC, e-content, repositories and the DL.
>
>
>
> We are wondering how best for Summon to get data from the DL to index.
> Summon appear to be offering to convert from any decent XML, and
> providing that should be trivial, other than: How will it be refreshed?
> Other options are OAI-PMH harvesting (but that's metadata only) or
> developing an API or exploiting an existing one. Perhaps there are
> further options?
>
>
>
> Any information or links to helpful sites will be very welcome.
>
>
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> Peter Spring
>
> Metadata librarian
>
> LSE Library
>
> London School of Economics
> http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/
>
>
>
>
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