Simple form to help generate oai-pmh queries for our DSpace

Simple OAI-PMH query generator

This form allows simple generation of OAI-PMH metadata harvesting queries to be generated for any of the UWA instances of DSpace. It lets you select the Dspace and the "verb", but doesn't help much with arguments. They are briefly listed here and described in full on the open archives site.

GetRecord
- identifier - required - unique identifier of item in repository.
- metadataPrefix - required - currently must be oai_dc.
ListIdentifiers, ListRecords
- metadataPrefix - required - currently must be oai_dc.
- from - optional - UTC datetime value for earliest time of interest.
- until - optional - UTC datetime value for latest time of interest.
- set - optional - the identifier of the set (read Dspace collection) whose records are of interest.
- resumptionToken - exclusive - flow control token returned by previous request that returned an incomplete list.
ListMetadataFormats
- identifier - optional - unique identifier of item in repository for which available metadata formats are to be listed.
ListSets
- resumptionToken - exclusive - flow control token returned by previous request that returned an incomplete list.

The verb identify has no arguments.

By way of illustration of the arguments, this is a well-formed GetRecords request.
http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:dspace.aber.ac.uk:123456789/12&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
This retrieved Jon Bell's thesis from the dspace development archive at the time, but changes to the archive might mean it no longer actually works. The text field for arguments needs any arguments following the value of verb entering (so "&idenifier..." in this case).

As an alternaive approach, listed below are a set of OAI-PMH requests that can be copied and pasted into a browser.

These were copied from the OAI-PMH website and changed to suit the DSpacedev installation. At the time of writing, all these commands did work. Alternative metadata prefixes are oai_dc, mets or uketd_dc.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:123456789/24&metadataPrefix=mets
Returns the METS metadata for the record identified (Jon's thesis).

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:123456789/45&metadataPrefix=uketd_mets

Returns the UKETD_METS metadata (MODS and UKETD Dublin Core descriptive metadata for a nonsense thesis on 3 files.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListSets
Lists the sets (collections) in the Dspace installation.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
Lists all records in DSpace, using oai_dc metadata prefix.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=hdl_123456789_2
Lists records in set 2 (Theses, PhD Theses), in OAI dublin core.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=uketd_dc&set=hdl_123456789_2
As previous but with METS metadata.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&from=2005-10-21&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=hdl_123456789_2
List records added or modified since date specified in specified set.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
List metadata formats suppported by repository.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats&identifier=oai:dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:123456789/24
List metadata formats supported by the item specified.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=Identify
Identify the repository.

http://dspacedev.aber.ac.uk:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
List all identifiers of items in the repository, using OAI Dublin Core.

As a better alternative, use this link to the OAI repository explorer form.