Harvesting Metadata from Dspace repository which has not activated OAI PMH

[Chisale Adrian]

Good morning colleagues.

Am Adrian Chisale from University of Zambia Library.

I Am conducting research where I am  ascertaining the quality of metadata from repositories in Zambia. Most of these repositories have not activated the Open Archive Initiative protocol for metadata harvester (OAI PMH).

I am Kindly asking for alternative ways of harvesting this metadata from repositories whose OAI PMH has not been activated. 

Thanks in advance.

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[Chisale Adrian]

Good morning colleagues.

Am Adrian Chisale from University of Zambia Library.

I Am conducting research where I am  ascertaining the quality of metadata from repositories in Zambia. Most of these repositories have not activated the Open Archive Initiative protocol for metadata harvester (OAI PMH).

I am Kindly asking for alternative ways of harvesting this metadata from repositories whose OAI PMH has not been activated. 

Thanks in advance.

[Mark H. Wood]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 09:38:43AM +0200, Chisale Adrian wrote:
> I Am conducting research where I am ascertaining the quality of metadata
> from repositories in Zambia. Most of these repositories have not activated
> the Open Archive Initiative protocol for metadata harvester (OAI PMH).
> I am Kindly asking for alternative ways of harvesting this metadata from
> repositories whose OAI PMH has not been activated.

I waited for a day in case someone offered a better idea, and to
ponder the problem. Without active cooperation from the target
repositories, I don't see any better way than screen-scraping. This
will be an *interesting* challenge, since DSpace has used three
radically different UI frameworks implementing subtly distinct path
designs.

If I were in your place, I would seriously consider whether it might
be easier to vigorously advocate PMH to those repositories.

I suppose that you could ask each repo. for a dump of its metadata.

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Mark H. Wood
Lead Technology Analyst

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