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[Apologies for cross-posting]
The Perl module Net::OAI::Harvester implements a client framework for
the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and was authored
and originally maintained by Ed Summers. It has been available on
CPAN ever since
The latest Ariadne has a pretty brief howto article [1] about using
Net::OAI::Harvester [2] to query OAI-PMH archives [3]. If you haven't heard
of OAI-PMH the short story is that it's an HTTP/XML based protocol for sharing
metadata. Net::OAI::Harvester is an object oriented client
A beta version of a Perl OAI-PMH harvesting library was just uploaded to
CPAN as Net::OAI::Harvester. The idea behind Net::OAI::Harvester is to
provide an object-oriented client interface to the data found in OAI-PMH
repositories (similar to what LWP::UserAgent does for HTTP).
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