Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
Just to let you know : I have some contacts that are interested by adding OAI features to Koha. They should do it on Koha 2.2.x branch and, later, on koha 3.x probably. [...] If someone in this list already has investigated such feature, please let me know.
I think my old company did some work on OAI (so 4+ years ago) and the biggest problem with serving OAI was resumption tokens. In short, if I remember correctly, a client can go away and bring back the token later on a new connection to continue its harvest. There was something about this which made it more awkward than things like web browser sessions, but I don't remember exactly what. I expect OAI has matured and is better-understood now, but I thought I should mention what little I remember, just in case. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker, developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/