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Metadata is provided in the MODS schema (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/) as extended in the Harvard LibraryCloud Schema (URL)with some LibraryCloud extensions) and Dublin Core. 

Base URI

The service's base address is: https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai

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The ListSets verb will return a list of all harvestable OAI sets defined as LibraryCloud collections. At this time, the LibraryCloud ListSets verb does not support a resumptionToken, so the response will always include the first 10 collections only.   

https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListSets

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https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListMetadataFormats (works)
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListMetadataFormats&identifier=990007968560203941 (why doesn't this work?)

Resumption tokens

The OAI requests for ListSets, ListRecords, and ListIdentifiers retrieve 10 results at a time, so the repeated use of a resumptionToken in the request URL is needed to retrieve the full amount of data.

For this a ListRecords request in the Scarlet collection :-- https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=mods&set=scarlet, here  -- this is how to use the resumption token to retrieve additional data beyond the first 10 items:

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