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OAI-PMH (https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html) provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting.
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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
ListSets
This query to the OAI data provider lists The ListSets verb will return a list of all harvestable OAI sets defined as LibraryCloud Collectionscollections.
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListSets (works; but is this all of them?)
ListRecords
ListRecords requests the OAI data provider to The ListRecords verb will return full metadata records for a given LibraryCloud Collectioncollection. Results can be returns returned as MODS or DC.
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=mods&set=CNAREVIEW (no matching records)scores
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=scores
ListIdentifiers
ListIdentifiers requests the OAI data provider to The ListIdentifiers verb will return the identifiers of records for in a given LibraryCloud Collectioncollection.
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=mods&set=CNAREVIEWscores (no matching records)
Identify
This verb is used to retrieve information about a The Identify verb will return information about Harvard's LibraryCloud repository.
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=Identify (works)
GetRecord
This verb is used to retrieve The GetRecord verb will return an individual metadata record from a the LibraryCloud repository. Required arguments specify the identifier of the item from which the record is to be requested and the format of the metadata that should be included in the record.
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dcmods&identifier=oai:vc.harvard.edu:scarlet.000796856 (doesn't work)using Aleph ID)
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:vc.harvard.edu:scarlet.990007968560203941 (alma vers doesn't work eitherusing Alma ID)
ListMetadataFormats
The ListMetadataFormats
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This verb is used to retrieve verb will return the metadata formats available from a the LibraryCloud repository. An optional argument restricts the request to the formats available for a specific item.
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListMetadataFormats (works)
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListMetadataFormats&identifier=990007968560203941
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 a ListRecords request in the Scarlet collection -- https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai:vc.harvard.edu:scarlet.990007968560203941 (why doesn't this work?)/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=mods&set=scarlet -- this is how to use the resumption token to retrieve additional data beyond the first 10 items:
- Make the initial ListRecords request: https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=mods&set=scarlet.
- Copy the resumptionToken value from the bottom of the list of 10 results, for example:
<resumptionToken completeListSize="445">10:0001-01-01:9999-12-31:scarlet:mods</resumptionToken>
The first part of the token value indicates the number at which the next list will start – "10" in the example above. - Remove the “metadataPrefix=x&set=y” parameters from the original request url and replace with the resumptionToken as an argument, like this:
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/oai/?verb=ListRecords&resumptionToken=10:0001-01-01:9999-12-31:scarlet:mods - Re-issue the request to get the next set of 10 items.