[Koha-bugs] [Bug 10662] Build OAI-PMH Harvesting Client

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10662

Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to David Cook from comment #0)
> Currently, Koha only acts as a OAI-PMH server, I propose to add a harvesting
> client as well (likely using the HTTP::OAI::Harvester module), so that Koha
> can ingest records from other data sources (such as digital repositories
> like Dspace).

Interesting idea.

> I've only started reading about it but despite initial reservations about
> resumption tokens, I think the hardest part will not be with the retrieval
> of records so much as the parsing of those records into MARC.

This may be less of a problem in the long run with my plans to allow Koha to
support multiple metadata formats (although even once that's available, you may
still want the harvester to be able to convert the source metadata into
something else).

One thing I'd suggest is that the harvester keep a copy of the original
metadata record in a database table; that would be more flexible than
immediately converting it to MARC and discarding the source data.

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