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Setting up the OAI PMH Provider
Setup of the OAI-PMH provider in RecordManager consists of two parts, OAI-PMH provider configuration in RecordManager and Apache configuration. Provider configuration includes basic repository information, format mappings, set configuration etc. See Configuration for information on the basic configuration.
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Make sure the database has the required indexes. For MongoDB, see dbscripts/mongo.js. The index required for good performance is not created by default.
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Check OAI-PMH and OAI-PMH Format Mappings sections in recordmanager.ini.
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Copy oai-pmh-formats.ini.sample to oai-pmh-formats.ini and modify if formats need to be added or removed. oai-pmh-formats.ini describes the formats available via OAI-PMH. The section name equals the format identifier (metadata prefix) in OAI-PMH, and format setting maps it to RecordManager's internal format. E.g. OAI-PMH identifies Dublin Core as oai_dc, while Dublin Core in RecordManager is typically known as dc.
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Copy oai-pmh-sets.ini.sample to oai-pmh-sets.ini and modify the set configuration if sets are needed. Currently it is only possible to to do full field matches.
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Modify datasources.ini and add any transformations to the data sources. As OAI-PMH requires that records are available in Dublin Core, the minimum should be something like:
transformation_to_dc = marc2oai_dc.properties -
Copy httpd-recman-oai-pmh.conf to Apache's conf.d directory (e.g. /etc/httpd/conf.d) and modify the path if necessary.
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Restart Apache for the changes to take effect.
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Test the provider by going to http://server/oai-pmh?verb=Identify in a www browser.
If the OAI-PMH Provider fails to work properly, check first PHP's error log or Apache's error log.