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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As some might know, I’ve been working on an OAI-PMH harvester client for Koha using the same HTTP::OAI packages that we use to make Koha an OAI-PMH repository server.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The idea is that you point Koha to the URL of a OAI-PMH compliant data source (my testing source is Koha but my production source will hopefully be DSpace), and then it uses the OAI-PMH protocol to import records.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>While some repositories export marcxml, the quality I’ve noticed hasn’t been that great, so I prefer to import Dublin core and transform it into MARC21 using XSLTs. However, YMMV on this point.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In any case, the harvester sends an HTTP request, receives the records in an OAI-PMH wrapper, the records are transformed to MARCXML as needed, they’re staged for import, they’re matched against previous OAI-PMH imports, then they stay waiting for manual intervention or are automatically committed to the database. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s still a work in progress, but I’ve posted my most up to date work on Bugzilla with some description, a test plan, and a unit test to run. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Even if you just apply it and check if the unit test works, that would be great. Any input is welcome : ). (I’d even welcome opinions where people think this is a bad idea :P)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10662">http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10662</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=320 style='width:240.0pt'><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=320 style='width:240.0pt;border:solid #666666 1.0pt'><tr style='height:.75pt'><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border:none;background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:.75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt 3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal 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