Hannu, we've decided to use simple rss feeds in favor over the OAI-PMH protocol in the IPT. the RSS feed (atom) is pagable and allows you to iterate over all resources in chronological order.
For example: http://ipt.gbif.org/atom.xml
and if there would have been more resources than 25 the second page would be: http://ipt.gbif.org/atom.xml?page=2
The rss feed give you the basic metadata directly including the geographic bounding box, a link to the full EML and a link to the resource page on the IPT as well as the resource homepage when existing. I just see that there is no link to the full dataset (dwc archive) yet. I will add that for the next release so the data can immediately be harvested from there.
I hope this satisfies your needs - its perfect for indexing I believe.
Markus
On Apr 15, 2010, at 14:19, Éamonn Ó Tuama (GBIF) wrote:
Hi Hannu,
I'm not sure I understand correctly but if you are asking whether the IPT has an OAI-PMH service built in - it does not. The IPT simply stores metadata on the server. You would have to implement your own OAI-PMH access service. Some tools that may be of use are provided here: http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/tools/tools.php
Éamonn
-----Original Message----- From: ipt-bounces@lists.gbif.org [mailto:ipt-bounces@lists.gbif.org] On Behalf Of Hannu Saarenmaa Sent: 15 April 2010 12:16 To: ipt@lists.gbif.org Subject: [IPT] OAI-PMH on IPT
Hello
How can I find the OAI-PMH access point of an IPT resource or of the entire server? It is not listed among the other webservices & resources. Is this documented somewhere?
Thanks, Hannu
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