Interoperability

The metadata schema used in CONTENTdm is designed to be easily exported and used by other online systems. CONTENTdm can produce XML files that are compatible with the OAI-PMH for harvesting and can produce comma-delimited files as well.

OAI Access Examples for Islandora

• Identify (returns name of the Repository)
  http://communalsocieties.hamilton.edu/oai2/oai.php?verb=Identify

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• GetRecord (returns a specific item, hamLibCom:42795, by its OAI identifier
  http://communalsocieties.hamilton.edu/oai2/oai.php?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Acommunalsocieties.hamilton.edu%3AhamLibCom%3A42795

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• set  (returns all objects in the collection/set "hamLibCom:Kerista_root")
  http://communalsocieties.hamilton.edu/oai2/oai.php?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=hamLibCom_Kerista_root

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• ListIdentifiers (returns all OAI identifiers for all records in Islandora (inly a limited number of records are returned))
  http://communalsocieties.hamilton.edu/oai2/oai.php?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

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• Resumption token (get number from bottom on displayed hits) [not working 2016-11)
  <http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&resumptionToken=xxxxxxxx>

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• ListMetadataFormats (returns all metadata formats available from CONTENTdm6)
  http://communalsocieties.hamilton.edu/oai2/oai.php?verb=ListMetadataFormats

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• ListRecords (returns all records for which OAI harvesting has been enabled)
  http://communalsocieties.hamilton.edu/oai2/oai.php?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

OAI Access Examples for CONTENTdm6

• Identify (returns name of the Repository)
  http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=Identify

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• GetRecord (returns a specific item, sha-car/1055, by its OAI identifier
  http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Acontentdm6.hamilton.edu%3Asha-car%2F1055

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• set  (returns all objects in the collection/set "sha-car")
  http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=sha-car

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• ListIdentifiers (returns all OAI identifiers for all records in CONTENTdm6)
  <http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&metadataPrefix=oai_dc>

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• Resumption token (get number from bottom on displayed hits) [not working 2016-11)
  <http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&resumptionToken=xxxxxxxx>

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• ListMetadataFormats (returns all metadata formats available from CONTENTdm6)
  http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListMetadataFormats

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• ListRecords (returns all records for which OAI harvesting has been enabled)
  http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

OAI Toolkits

• Validator & data extractor Tool
  <http://validator.oaipmh.com> 
   
• Open Archives Initiative - Repository Explorer
  <http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/> 
   
• OAI-PMH Protocol Requests and Responses
  <http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm#ProtocolMessages> 
   
• OCLC Research Activities and the Open Archives Initiative
  <http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/oai.html?urlm=159804> (accessed October 2, 2013)
   
• UIUC OAI Metadata Harvesting Project
  <http://uilib-oai.sourceforge.net/> (accessed October 2, 2013)
   
• OAI - Virginia Tech DLRL Projects
  <http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/> (accessed October 2, 2013)
   
• Search Sourceforge for OAI Tools
  <http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=oai> (accessed October 2, 2013)
   
• OAI Tooks Page (OAI Web site)
  <http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/tools/tools.php> (accessed October 2, 2013)
   

Interoperability Resources

• The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, Protocol ver. 2.0, document ver. Nov. 12, 2005
  <http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm> (accessed October 2, 2013)
   
• Interoperability between Library Information Services and Learning Environments – Bridging the Gaps, by Neil McLean and Clifford Lynch, Draft version of June 28, 2003 (published: May 10, 2004)
  <http://www.imsglobal.org/dlims_white_paper_publicdraft_1.pdf> (accessed October 2, 2013)
   
• Digital Library Content and Course Management Systems: Issues of Interoperation, July, 2004 (DLF)
  <http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf100/cmsdl0407.pdf> (accessed October 2, 2013)
   
• Collaboration, community and consortia in the digital provision of art images, by Stephen O'Brien, 2003? (Hunter Institute)
  <http://www.vala.org.au/vala2004/2004pdfs/56Obrien.PDF> (accessed October 2, 2013)
   
• Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments (MIT's SIMILE Project)
  <http://simile.mit.edu/ , Wiki: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Main_Page> (accessed October 2, 2013)