Digital Library Harvesting Tutorial

Install the DLESE OAI Provider

1. Follow these instructions for installing: http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/joai_software.jsp. Current version is 3.10 as of this writing.
2. You can use the Tomcat manager to upload the war file and install on your server.
3. The OAI manager will be at http://server:8080/oai/ (see motherlode example). Follow the documentation to configure.

• Repository name:
• format: dif and adn

OAI Harvesting

• Install the DLESE OAI Provider. We will provide a special version, already configured for use with the TDS.
  • modify /webapps/oai/oai_requests/ListMetadataFormats.jsp
  • changed updateFrequency in web.xml to 1440 (1 day). 0 = off.
• The OAI URL will be http://servername:port/oai/provider

Catalog Harvesting

• http://servername:port/thredds/DLwriter?type=(ADN|DIF)&[catalog=catalog.xml]
• Default catalog is /thredds/idd/models.xml

Related Documents

• Exporting THREDDS Datasets to Digital Libraries

This document is maintained by John Caron and was last updated on Jun 19, 2007