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OAI 2.0 is a separate webapp which is a complete substitute for the old "oai" webapp. OAI 2.0 has a configurable data source, by default it will not query the DSpace SQL database at the time of the OAI-PMH request. Instead, it keeps the required metadata in its Solr index (currently in a separate "oai" Solr core) and serves it from there. It's also possible to set OAI 2.0 to only use the database for querying purposes if necessary, but this decreases performance significantly. Furthermore, it the webapp caches the requests, so doing the same query repeatedly is very fast. In addition to that it also compiles DSpace items to make uncached responses much faster.
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OAI 2.0 could also work using the database for querying. To configure that one must change the [dspace]/config/modules/xoaioai.cfg
file, specifically the "storage"
parameter, setting it to "database"
. This decreases performance significantly and likely has no other benefits than leaving out Solr as a dependency.
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And at /openaire context it provides:
- OAI_DC
- METS
Configuration
Basic Configuration
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Information Note: | This allows to choose the OAI data source between solr and database |
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Informational Note: | Solr Server location |
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Informational Note: | OAI persistent identifier prefix. Format - oai:PREFIX:HANDLE |
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Informational Note: | Configuration directory, used by XOAI (core library). Contains xoai.xml, metadata format XSLTs and transformer XSLTs. |
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Informational Note: | Directory to store runtime generated files (for caching purposes). |
Advanced Configuration
OAI 2.0 allows you to configure following advanced options:
- Contexts
- Transformers
- Metadata Formats
- Filters
- Sets
It's an XML file commonly located at: [dspace]/config/crosswalks/oai/xoai.xml
General options
These options influence the OAI interface globally. "per page" means per request, next page (if there is one) can be requested using resumptionToken provided in current page.
Encoding problems
There are two main potential sources of encoding problems:
a) The servlet connector port has to use the correct encoding. E.g. for Tomcat, this would be <Connector port="8080"
... URIEncoding="UTF-8" />
, where the port attribute specifies port of the connector that DSpace is configured to access Solr on (this is usually 8080, 80 or in case of AJP 8009).
b) System locale of the dspace command line script that is used to do the oai import. Make sure the user account launching the script (usually from cron) has the correct locale set (e.g. en_US.UTF-8). Also make sure the locale is actually present on your system.
Configuration
Basic Configuration
Configuration File: |
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Property: |
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Example Value: |
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Information Note: | This allows to choose the OAI data source between solr and database |
Property: |
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Example Value: |
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Informational Note: | Solr Server location |
Property: |
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Example Value: |
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Informational Note: | OAI persistent identifier prefix. Format - oai:PREFIX:HANDLE |
Property: |
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Example Value: |
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Informational Note: | Configuration directory, used by XOAI (core library). Contains xoai.xml, metadata format XSLTs and transformer XSLTs. |
Property: |
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Example Value: |
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Informational Note: | Directory to store runtime generated files (for caching purposes). |
Advanced Configuration
OAI 2.0 allows you to configure following advanced options:
- Contexts
- Transformers
- Metadata Formats
- Filters
- Sets
It's an XML file commonly located at: [dspace]/config/crosswalks/oai/xoai.xml
General options
These options influence the OAI interface globally. "per page" means per request, next page (if there is one) can be requested using resumptionToken provided in current page.
identation [boolean] - whether the output XML should be indented to make it human-readable
maxListIdentifiersSize [integer] - how many identifiers to show per page (verb=ListIdentifiers)
- maxListRecordsSize [integer] - how many records to show per page (verb=ListRecords)
maxListSetsSize [integer] -
identation [boolean] - whether the output XML should be indented to make it human-readable
maxListIdentifiersSize [integer] - how many identifiers to show per page (verb=ListIdentifiers)
- maxListRecordsSize [integer] - how many records to show per page (verb=ListRecords)
maxListSetsSize [integer] - how many sets to show per page (verb=ListSets)
stylesheet [relative file path] - an xsl stylesheet used by client's web browser to transform the output XML into human-readable HTML
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IDENTIFIER | The identifier used within context configurations to reference this specific format, must be unique within all Metadata Formats available. |
PREFIX | The prefix used in OAI interface (metadataPrefix=PREFIX). |
XSLT | The name of the XSLT file within [dspace]/config/crosswalks/oai/metadataFormats directory |
NAMESPACE | XML Default Namespace of the created Schema |
SCHEMA_LOCATION | URI Location of the XSD of the created Schema |
specific format, must be unique within all Metadata Formats available. | |
PREFIX | The prefix used in OAI interface (metadataPrefix=PREFIX). |
XSLT | The name of the XSLT file within [dspace]/config/crosswalks/oai/metadataFormats directory |
NAMESPACE | XML Default Namespace of the created Schema |
SCHEMA_LOCATION | URI Location of the XSD of the created Schema |
NOTE: Changes in [dspace]/config/crosswalks/oai/xoai.xml requires reloading/restarting the servlet container.
Add/Remove Metadata Fields
The internal DSpace fields (Dublin Core) are exposed in the internal XOAI format (xml). All other metadata formats exposed via OAI are mapped from this XOAI format using XSLT (xoai.xsl itself is just an identity transformation). These XSLT stylesheets are found in the [dspace]/config/crosswalks/oai/metadataFormats directory. So e.g. oai_dc.xsl is a transformation from the XOAI format to the oai_dc format (unqualified Dublin Core).
Therefore exposing any DSpace metadata field in any OAI format is just a matter of modifying the corresponding output format stylesheet (This assumes the general knowledge of how XSLT works. For a tutorial, see e.g. http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/).
For example, if you have a DC field "local.note.librarian" that you want to expose in oai_dc as <dc:note> (please note that this is not a valid DC field and thus breaks compatibility), then edit oai_dc.xsl and add the following lines just above the closing tag </oai_dc:dc>:
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<xsl:for-each select="doc:metadata/doc:element[@name='local']/doc:element[@name='note']/doc:element/doc:element/doc:field[@name='librarian']">
<dc:note><xsl:value-of select="." /></dc:note>
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If you need to add/remove metadata fields, you're changing the output format. Therefore it is recommended to create a new metadata format as a copy of the one you want to modify. This way the old format will remain available along with the new one and any upgrades to the original format during DSpace upgrades will not overwrite your customizations. If you need the format to have the same name as the original format (e.g. the default oai_dc format), you can create a new context in xoai.xsl containing your modified format with the original name, which will be available as /oai/context-name.
NOTE: Please, keep in mind that the OAI provider caches the transformed output, so you have to run [dspace]/bin/dspace oai clean-cache
after any .xsl modification and reload the OAI page for the changes to take effect. When adding/removing metadata formats, making changes NOTE: Changes in [dspace]/config/crosswalks/oai/xoai.xml requires reloading/restarting the servlet container.
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