OAI Tools

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OAI Tools OAI Protocol Version 2

• Timothy W. Cole (t-cole3_at_uiuc.edu)University of
  Illinois at UC
• OAI Standards for Sheet Music 28 March 2002,
  Bloomington, IN

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Available OAI Tools

• OAI Utilities
• OAI Repository Explorer (Hussein Suleman, VT)
• DP9, HTML Gateway (Xiaoming Liu, ODU)
• OAI Providers Harvesters
• E-Prints (Univ. of Southampton)
• DLXS / XPat (John Price Wilkin, U of Michigan)
• OCLC / ALCME (ETD, Jeff Young)
• OAIB / COCOA (Joe Futrelle, NCSA / UIUC)
• PERL Template (Hussein Suleman, VT)
• Windows Implementation (Tim Cole, UIUC)
• More See http//www.openarchives.org/tools/

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Typical Prerequisites

• Web Server with CGI capability
• E.g., Apache Tomcat, IIS
• Java RE / SDK, or Equivalent
• Database Application
• E.g., MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL,
• XML Parser
• Xerces, Suns JavaXMLPack, MSXML

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UIUC OAI Harvester for MS Windows 2000

• Harvests Files from OAI-Compliant Providers
• Saves Metadata Records as XML Files
• Stores Information About Harvests Harvested
  Records in Relational Database
• Three Components
• Spider that Gets Metadata Records
• Manager Service that Initiates Tracks Spiders
• Web Interface (Java Applet) For Scheduling
  Harvests

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For Illustration Only
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For Illustration Only
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Protocol Versions

• Alpha Version Testing, Fall 2000
• 1.0 Release January 2001 (Experimental Version)
• 1.1 Release July 2001 (W3C XML Schema Update)
• 2.0 Release Planned for June 2002
• In Development Since August 2001
• In Alpha Test Since March 1, 2002
• Stable, Production Release

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OAI Version 2.0 Features

• Essential Fixes Clarifications,
• Not Backward Compatible
• But No Major Change in Emphasis
• Addresses
• Improved Time Stamp Granularity Supported
• ResumptionToken (Flow Control) Best Practices
• Improved Set Management, Added SetDescription
• OAI Error Codes in XML
• Single OAI Namespace (still multiple schemas)
• Reliance on DCMI XML Schemas

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OAI Version 2.0 Features (cont.)

• What Version 2.0 Doesnt Do
• No SOAP
• No Automated Rights Management
• No Distributed Awareness Mechanisms
• No Result Set Filtering (Distributed Search)
• June 3, 2002 Release Will Include
• Annotated Version Showing Changes from 1.1
• Usage Guidelines Document
• Updated Conformance Testing Software

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OAI Future

• SOAP Other Advanced Features Still Being
  Investigated
• Long-Term Maintenance Strategy for OAI Under
  Development
• Community-Specific Best Practices Extensions
  Under Development

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Additional URLs

• UIUC OAI Harvesting Project Home Page
• http//oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/
• UIUC Search Interface
• http//oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/oai/search/
• UIUC XML-Based OAI Provider Tool Template
• http//oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/ProviderTools/Templat
  eBReadme.htm
• UIUC Windows-Based OAI Harvester
• http//oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/harvester.htm