Harvest OAI-PMH Expression, from FRED project. Profiled to Dublin Core, REST service call.

This service expression is a specialization of the harvest service genre. It exposes a web service that uses the OAI-PMH specification for harvesting metadata. All of the OAI-PMH operators (verbs) are supported. The resource (provider repository) being harvested exposes an interface for harvesting. Communications to the provider service implementation interface are represented in requests defined using HTTP. Requests and (dissemination) results are communicated between the client/requestor and the provider service implementation using HTTP, with results encoded in XML. The service expression supports disseminating unqualified Dublin Core metadata from the resource. The service implementation does not include a mechanism to authorize clients. How to discover service implementations that support harvesting is out of scope.

Related expression already accepted in e-framework from FRED project: OAI-PMH, LOM metadata, Web Service call.

THE LATEST VERSION is available at:  http://fred.usq.edu.au/files/harvest%20resource%20oai%20pmh%20basic%20v1.0.0.pdf