ZOpenArchives : OAI-PMH implementation for Zope, transforms Zope or Plone into an OAI Data Provider and AggregatorHere is the lastest release of the ZOpenArchives Product for zope : ZOpenArchives-1.5.4.tgz
This product is an OAI implementation for the Zope server.
Exist repository handle now nicely OAI 2.0 spec and is valid against openArchives.org validator. New, this repository manage OAI sets !!
zOAI can use eXist database as repository that provide support of any kind of MetaData schema.
From the version 1.5 it's recommanded to only use eXist storage feature with Exist OAI repository/aggregator/harvester/set and nameSpace.
The following components are provide by the package:
Demo :
You can find ZOAI usecase and OAI-PMH request examples here.
- eXist OAI Aggregator : Which will contain eXist OAI Harvesters
- eXist zCatalog OAI Harvester : Which will do the harvest from a zCatalog
inside an eXist
DB repository
- eXist OAI Harvester : Which will do the harvest from remote OAI Servers
inside an eXist
DB repository
- eXist OAI Repository : Which will provide eXist ressources as OAI records
- eXist OAI set : Which give you access to a set management of your repository
And old OAI ZCatalog storage objects:
- Zope OAI Server : Which will contain ZCatalog Harvesters
- Open Archives Aggregator : Which will contain OAI Harvesters
- OAI Harvester : Which will do the harvest from external OAI Servers
- ZCatalog Harvester : Which will provide ZCatalog records as OAI records
Read CHANGES.txt for history informations
Read for french information about OAI-PMH the Francois Nawrocki document
This software is governed by the GPL license. See LICENSE.txt for the terms of this license.

