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

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

--- Comment #40 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #39)
> I think the discussion is very interesting, but I am a bit worried about the
> handling of a record from multiple sources. Maybe it would be good to agree
> on a basic version of the harvester for a first implementation and then
> enhance it for more complicated scenarios step by step?

I'm inclined to agree with Katrin. I think it makes more sense to have a solid
basic version before we try to over-complicate things.

I've actually thought of another problem with the OAI-PMH import... and that's
merging bibliographic records. If you were to merge a local record and a
OAI-PMH record, and choose for the local record to be the destination record,
the OAI-PMH import would be broken for that record... because the merge
functionality has no concept of the OAI-PMH harvest.

I like the idea of locking records that have been imported via certain
mechanisms, although having that locking be effective across the board would
require some rigorous checks in place throughout the code.

I wish that there were some sort of tracking to show the source of all records
(e.g. original, Z39.50, OAI-PMH, REST API, etc) to help out with that.

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The only problem I can see with providing a basic version is that a basic
version might not capture all the data that we need for more complicated future
scenarios... and it might make it 10 times harder to implement more complicated
code in the future as a result...

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