Installing on VMWare

***Coming fall of 2012***

We are working to create a VMware appliance based on openSUSE 12.1. It will have all the XC modules (OAI Toolkit, the Metadata Services Toolkit and the Drupal Toolkit) installed on one server image. This will allow institutions that have a VMware infrastructure to quickly get an XC instance up and running with a very small time commitment. It will also, very conveniently, set you up with all the other XC Software components that are needed for an end-to-end XC system.

By following the directions provided, you will gain experience and skill by using a file of MARC records that are provided. These records are:

• Converted to MARCXML and loaded into an OAI-PMH repository via the OAI Toolkit
• Harvested by the Metadata Services Toolkit, which will perform a series of data clean up and normalization steps and then converted to the XC Schema data format
• Made available for discovery in the Drupal Toolkit
• After this, you can repeat the process using the records from your ILS