HTTP::OAI::Repository(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				HTTP::OAI::Repository(3pm)

NAME

       HTTP::OAI::Repository - Documentation for building an OAI compliant repository using OAI-PERL

DESCRIPTION

       Using the OAI-PERL library in a repository context requires the user to build the OAI responses to be sent to OAI harvesters.

SYNOPSIS 1
	       use HTTP::OAI::Harvester;
	       use HTTP::OAI::Metadata::OAI_DC;
	       use XML::SAX::Writer;
	       use XML::LibXML;

	       # (all of these options _must_ be supplied to comply with the OAI protocol)
	       # (protocolVersion and responseDate both have sensible defaults)
	       my $r = new HTTP::OAI::Identify(
		       baseURL=>'http://yourhost/cgi/oai',
		       adminEmail=>'youremail@yourhost',
		       repositoryName=>'agoodname',
		       requestURL=>self_url()
	       );

	       # Include a description (an XML::LibXML Dom object)
	       $r->description(new HTTP::OAI::Metadata(dom=>$dom));

	       my $r = HTTP::OAI::Record->new(
		       header=>HTTP::OAI::Header->new(
			       identifier=>'oai:myrepo:10',
			       datestamp=>'2004-10-01'
			       ),
		       metadata=>HTTP::OAI::Metadata::OAI_DC->new(
			       dc=>{title=>['Hello, World!'],description=>['My Record']}
			       )
	       );
	       $r->about(HTTP::OAI::Metadata->new(dom=>$dom));

	       my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new();
	       $r->set_handler($writer);
	       $r->generate;

Building an OAI compliant repository
       The validation scripts included in this module provide the repository admin with a number of tools for helping with being OAI compliant,
       however they can not be exhaustive in themselves.

METHODS

       $r = HTTP::OAI::Repository::validate_request(%paramlist)
       $r = HTTP::OAI::Repository::validate_request_2_0(%paramlist)
	   These functions, exported by the Repository module, validate an OAI request against the protocol requirements. Returns an
	   HTTP::Response object, with the code set to 200 if the request is well-formed, or an error code and the message set.

	   e.g:

		   my $r = validate_request(%paramlist);

		   print header(-status=>$r->code.' '.$r->message),
			   $r->error_as_HTML;

	   Note that validate_request attempts to be as strict to the Protocol as possible.

       $b = HTTP::OAI::Repository::validate_date($date)
       $b = HTTP::OAI::Repository::validate_metadataPrefix($mdp)
       $b = HTTP::OAI::Repository::validate_responseDate($date)
       $b = HTTP::OAI::Repository::validate_setSpec($set)
	   These functions, exported by the Repository module, validate the given type of OAI data. Returns true if the given value is sane, false
	   otherwise.

EXAMPLE

       See the bin/gateway.pl for an example implementation (it's actually for creating a static repository gateway, but you get the idea!).

perl v5.12.4							    2010-09-01						HTTP::OAI::Repository(3pm)