By cvirom on

Hi all,

I have another question related with running Drupal in a hosting:

Anyone out there has experience working with the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interface
to the Bibliography Module, running multiple Drupal websites in
Linux hosting, so that can I do federated searches in our extranet?

You know, the classic mode is a group of universities sharing theirs
metadata and submitting to a OAI service, but if we try to do the
same in a network of NOGs, do you think it will work?

Thanks for your time and cooperation.

Regards,

Carlos

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ubpeter commented

I have set up one site with Biblio and OAI-PMH on Linux (Fedora).

I would do this:

1. Set up different drupal sites with the biblio and OAI-PMH modules

2. Test each site if they work as an OAI data provider

Copy the oai2 directory to your modules directory. Visit admin/modules
and enable the oai2 module, the module will report success or failure of the
installation. Visit the admin/menu page to activate (and cache) the /oai url.

You should now be able to visit example.com/oai?verb=Identify and get some basic
information about your repository.

3. Set up your OAI data harvester (you can use PKP's harvester: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=harvester , use the manual http://pkp.sfu.ca/harvester2/AdminGuide.pdf ).

Good luck.

Peter.