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OAI-PMH Python package (pyoai)

The pyoai package enables high-level access to an OAI-PMH metadata repository and also implements a framework for quickly creating OAI-PMH compliant servers. Arbitrary repositories can be accessed and harvested using an easy to use Python-based API. It has built-in support for the default Dublin Core metadata set (oai_dc). It can also be easily extended with support for other metadata sets using a simple declarative system based on industry-standard xpath expressions. The same simple Python API used for harvesting can be implemented by the programmer to set up a new OAI-PMH compliant server.

The oaipmh package can be integrated with any Python application. The requirement  to install version pyoai 2.0b1 and beyond is lxml, which in turn needs libxml2  and libxslt. Older versions need libxml2 and its Python bindings.

For more information see the OAI-PMH Pack product page.

Thank you

Jan-Wijbrand Kolman for API feedback.

Thom Hickey for critical discussion of the source code.

Thijs Janssen for a bugfix for version 1.0.

Many thanks go to Henk Ellermann at the library of Erasmus University Rotterdam for making this development possible.

Dependencies

libxml2

http://www.xmlsoft.org/

libxslt

http://www.xmlsoft.org/XSLT

lxml

http://codespeak.net/lxml