OAI-PMH Plugin

  • Hello,

    First of all, I decided to place my post here since my issue is kind of a request.

    My company is gonna be needing in the future an OAI-PMH implementation on WordPress, since we’ll be harvesting data from a digital repository.

    The problem is I can’t find any plugin for WordPress that already does that, nor even close, and yet I find it for Drupal without searching a lot. But how can that be if WordPress is a lot more used than any other CMS (recent data)?

    To my question.
    Why is there no OAI-PMH plugin for WordPress?

    Trying out with Omeka and Ica-Atom softwares, OAI-PMH implementation does not seem that hard to accomplish.

    I really want to know since we’ll end up developing it ourselves, and if there is an obvious reason why not to do it, please shed some light on the matter.

    Thank you very much.

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    First of all, I decided to place my post here since my issue is kind of a request.

    And I decided to move this to “Plugins and Hacks” because “Requests and Feedback” are not for these questions. ??

    Why is there no OAI-PMH plugin for WordPress?

    What is an “OAI-PMH” implementation?

    Thread Starter AmmoPT

    (@ammopt)

    Hello Jan,

    Thank you for moving the post to the appropriate area, I apologise since I don’t participate in forums as much as I would like.

    OAI-PMH is an international standard protocol used for metadata harvesting via the web.
    It’s used by librabries, museum, archives and all sorts of institutions to provide their data to others, with interoperability in mind.

    OAI-PMH example image.

    There are 2 actors in an OAI-PMH system:
    1) OAI-PMH data providers
    2) OAI-PMH harvesters

    The first actor needs to implement an OAI-PMH repository, so harvester can access the base url of said repository.
    The second actor needs to implement OAI-PMH harvesting, in order to define the arguments in the request to the provider.

    Hi AmmoPT,

    Have you found a solution to this issue? I need to do the same with my site.

    Leonardo

    Thread Starter AmmoPT

    (@ammopt)

    Hello heyhielo,

    I haven’t found a solution per say. Turns out we redesigned our projected and we’re supplying the items via a standard REST API, not OAI-PMH.
    We are using the software DSpace as a provider.

    Although I think OAI-PMH may be coming to WordPress soon, it is not in the scope of our project to develop the plug-in ourselves.

    Best of luck.

    Regards,

    Ammo

    Thanks!

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