OAI2.0 interface for each project?

[Rufus]

Hi,

I'm afraid I have not quite understood the functions of OAI 2.0. Please correct me, if I am wrong:

provided the case my DSpace repository contains two communities. Could I treat each of my

communities as a project and provide a separate OAI interface for it? Is it that what is meant by "defining an interface for each project?" 

Regards,

Rufus

[Tim Donohue]

Hi Rufus,

Out of the box, DSpace's OAI-PMH interface will display all Communities & Collections as OAI "Sets".  See for example the demo site: http://demo.dspace.org/oai/request?verb=ListSets

So, there's no need to customize OAI-PMH settings unless you find its default settings to be insufficient. I get the sense that most institutions leave OAI-PMH settings them as-is, except they might tweak the metadata "crosswalks" if they have added custom metadata fields that they want displayed different in OAI-PMH.

The "Projects" you refer to in the OAI-PMH 2.0 docs are for more complex scenarios, specifically OpenAIRE or DRIVER (which no longer exists): https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/OAI+2.0+Server#OAI2.0Server-WhyOAI2.0?  Some external projects like these require very specific metadata fields to be available in OAI-PMH, so OAI 2.0 provides a way to configure those separately from your default OAI configs. These projects end up displayed as separate "contexts" in OAI-PMH.  See for example the demo site: http://demo.dspace.org/oai/

Again though, all of this is usually not necessary to touch or customize. The default settings often work perfectly fine.  If you have a more advanced use case though, you are welcome to describe it on this list (or on the Tech Support list, dspace-tech), and we can give you more specific advice.

Good luck,

Tim

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