javaxml-parsingoai

Getting data using OAI-PMH from an insitutional repository

I'm developing an application where I've requested data from an external institution's website. They have informed me that the data will be provided by OAI-PMH.

Could someone show me some sample code in Java how data is extracted from a OAI-PMH ?

I wonder how different it is from reading and parsing XML data.

Thank you.

Warmest wishes, Shoubhik

Solution

  • For a Java implementation, for example, you could use some already existent library, like XOAI with an easy to use API. There are some provided samples.

    To extract metadata from each Record you could use a XML Parser or a XML bind approach (JAXB). For other languages, like PHP and Perl there are also other alternatives.