HTTP::OAI::Repository 3.18

HTTP::OAI::Repository is a documentation for building an OAI compliant repository using OAI-PERL.

Using the OAI-PERL library in a repository context requires the user to build the OAI responses to be sent to OAI harvesters.

SYNOPSIS

use HTTP::OAI::Harvester;
use HTTP::OAI::Metadata::OAI_DC;
use XML::SAX::Writer;
use XML::LibXML;

# (all of these options _must_ be supplied to comply with the OAI protocol)
# (protocolVersion and responseDate both have sensible defaults)
my $r = new HTTP::OAI::Identify(
baseURL=>http://yourhost/cgi/oai,
adminEmail=>youremail@yourhost,
repositoryName=>agoodname,
requestURL=>self_url()
);

# Include a description (an XML::LibXML Dom object)
$r->description(new HTTP::OAI::Metadata(dom=>$dom));

my $r = HTTP::OAI::GetRecord->new(
header=>HTTP::OAI::Header->new(
identifier=>oai:myrepo:10,
datestamp=>2004-10-01
),
metadata=>HTTP::OAI::Metadata::OAI_DC->new(
dc=>{title=>[Hello, World!],description=>[My Record]}
)
);
$r->about(HTTP::OAI::Metadata->new(dom=>$dom));

my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new();
$r->set_handler($writer);
$r->generate;