Editing Repository configuration (section)

==ArchiveOAIConfig.pm==
This module configures how the archive exports its data via the OAI protocol.

For more inforamtion on the how and why of OAI see http://www.openarchives.org/

OAI allows a harvestor to request the metadata from your archive and other archives to provide a federated search. The next time the harvestor harvests your archive it only has to ask for items which have changed or been added since last time it asked.

The current version of EPrints supports OAI v2.0. OAI version one is no longer supported.

The base URL for your OAI v2.0 interface will be http://archivepath/perl/oai2

If you want to use the OAI system then you need to fill in the blanks, such as policy and the OAI-id of the archive.

You may create OAI sets in a similar manner to "browse views" in ArchiveConfig.pm.

If you want to change the way that an EPrint is mapped into Dublin Core then edit the make_metadata_oai_dc - which returns a DOM XML object.

To add a new metadata type you need to add a new mapping function and add entries to the namespaces, schemas and functions items near the top of the file.