[Koha-devel] Koha and OAI

[MJ Ray]

Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at 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,
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