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Overview:    Technical Validation Questionnaire  |   OAI in Europe
Experiences:    OAI-PMH pilot  |   Implementation of OAI-Services
Inventories:    Open Archive Tools  |   Services (pdf-file, 517 KB)  |   Repositories (pdf-file, 275 KB)

Inventory of Open Archive Software Tools

Contents:
Arc source
CDSware
Celestial (OAIA)
DLESE OAI Software
DP9
DBUnion Archive Merger Component
DSpace
Eprints
ETD-db OAI Extensions
Greenstone
i-TOR
MyCoRe
my.OAI
NCSTRL/Dienst
OAICat
OAI Data Provider Script HUBerlin
OAIHarvester
OAI Implementation for Windows
OAI Java Implementation for Linux/Windows
oai-perl library
OAIster
OMNIS 2
Open Video
OPUS
ParaTools
PHP OAI Data Provider
Rapid Visual OAI Tool
Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT)
SISIS-Elektra
Viser
VT ETD-db
VTOAI OAI-PMH Perl Implementation
XMLFile
ZMARCO

more   Printable Version   (pdf-file, 737 KB) 

more   Comparison of DSpace and Eprints

more   Guide to Institutional Repository Software
The Open Society Institute intends this document to help organizations with one facet of their repository planning: selecting a software system that best satisfies an institution's needs. Additionally a System Feature & Functionality Table attempt to explain the relevance of system technical features in the context of a repository's broader planning, design, and policy framework.

The project reviewed a number of software products which support the OAI compliance of repositories and services. The list below contains 32 open source developments and is on the state of August 2003. This register covers specifications of the tool itself, it's purposes and technical requirements as well as designations about support and evaluation experiences. These experiences made with available software tools may contribute to the promotion and further implementation of OAI based open archives in Europe and may help communities to reach agreements on common solutions to technical issues.

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Tool Name

Arc source
  Programmer 5 developers, Xiaoming Liu
  Organisation Old Dominion University
  Description- URL http://sourceforge.net/projects/oaiarc/
  Download- URL http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61532&release_id=136920
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description Arc is a federated search service based on OAI-PMH. It includes a harvester, a search engine together with a simple search interface, which is based on a database, OAI-PMH, and an OAI-PMH layer over harvested metadata.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interfaces: JDBC, Search
Metadata Formats: all kinds of metadata formats from received data providers
Technical
Requirements		 JDK1.4, Tomcat 4.0x, and RDBMS server (tested in Oracle and MySQL till now)
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=13495&group_id=61532
  E-mail Support E-mail, Support requests, mailing lists, bugs
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances Arc can be configured and customised for a specific community.
  Adaptability This architecture is platform independent and can work with any web server.
The current implementation supports two relational databases, one in the commercial domain (Oracle), and the other in the public domain (MySQL).
Moreover, the changes required to work with different databases are minimal.
  Programming The architecture of Arc has the major components: Search Engine, Harvester, and an OAI layer over Arc for hierarchical harvesting.
Java Servlet application with classes.
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Tool Name

CDSware
  Programmer Jean-Yves Le Meur, Tibor Simko, Thomas Baron, Martin Vesely, Hector Sanchez
  Organisation CERN
  Description- URL http://cdsware.cern.ch/index.shtml
  Download- URL http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description CDSware allows you to run your own electronic preprint server, your own online library catalogue or a document system on the web. It complies with the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH) and uses MARC 21 as its underlying bibliographic standard.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Supported Interfaces, Collection Systems:
  • Database
  • Configurable portal-like interfaces for hosting various kind of collections (ALEPH)
  • Powerful search engine with Google-like syntax
Metadata Formats: oai_dc, MARC21.
Technical
Requirements		 MySQL database server and Apache (PHP, Python) web application server
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/INSTALL
  E-mail Support E-mail, mailing lists
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances Other platform independent services can be integrated in CDSware, such as the conversion server as an additional service provided within the CERN CDSware installation.
Other services like Scan, Agenda, Webcast.
  Adaptability CDSware can be used after install.
  Programming Two ways metadata sharing:
  • Hierarchical Harvesting
  • Reciprocal Harvesting
Object-oriented Python application with modules.
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Tool Name

Celestial (OAIA)
  Programmer Tim Brody
  Organisation University of Southampton
  Description- URL http://celestial.eprints.org/
http://oai-perl.sourceforge.net/
  Download- URL http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21275
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description Celestial is a service that harvests metadata from repositories that support OAI-PMH, and caches that data for other services to harvest. Celestial can harvest from repositories that support the OAI-PMH 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 versions. Metadata can be harvested from Celestial using version 2.0.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database
Metadata Formats: all kinds of metadata formats from received data providers
Technical
Requirements		 oai-perl v2, MySQL, Perl 5.6.x and a CGI-capable web server.
 
Support  
  Installation instruction In the file 'Install.txt' by download.
  E-mail Contact E-mail, support requests, bugs
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability Celestial can be used without changes.
  Programming Perl modules
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Tool Name

DLESE OAI Software
  Programmer  
  Organisation Digital Library for Earth System Education
  Description- URL http://dlese.org/oai/index.jsp
  Download- URL -
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP/SP
  Description The DLESE OAI software is designed to be simple to install, configure and use and includes both a data provider and harvester. The data provider serves metadata from XML files, automatically updating what is provided whenever the XML files change. The harvester likewise saves harvested metadata to files. The software supports the OAI-PHM v2.0. In addition, the data provider exposes its metadata to outside clients as a web service through an Open Digital Libraries (ODL) search interface. Remote clients can perform keyword search queries over the metadata using the ODL search interface and receive an ordered list of matching records within the standard OAI-PMH XML response.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interfaces: Search
Metadata Formats: adn, dlese_ims,dlese_anno, news_opps, dlese_collection, briefmeta, oai_dc, dc_qual, dc_simple, nsdl_dc
Technical
Requirements		 The software is packaged as a Java WAR file for use in a servlet environment such as Tomcat and will run on UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X.
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://dlese.org/oai/INSTALL.txt
  E-mail Support E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming Java Servlet and XSL application with classes.
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Tool Name

DP9
  Programmer Xiaoming Liu
  Organisation Old Dominion University
  Description- URL http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/about.jsp
  Download- URL http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/install.jsp
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description DP9 is a gateway service that enables indexing of an OAI data provider by an Internet search engine. DP9 does this by providing a persistent URL for repository records, and converting this to an OAI query against the appropriate repository when the URL is requested. This allows search engines that do not support the OAI protocol to index the "deep web" contained within OAI compliant repositories
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Metadata formats: oai_dc, rfc1807
Technical
Requirements		 Tomcat 4.0, JDK1.4
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/install.jsp
  E-mail Support E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Arc
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability DP9 can be used without changes.
  Programming Object- oriented Java Servlet Package, XSLT
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Tool Name

DBUnion Archive Merger Component
  Programmer Hussein Suleman
  Organisation Virginia Tech
  Description- URL http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/odl/software/dbunion/
  Download- URL http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/odl/software/dbunion/
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description Merge together different OAI-accessible archives into a single archive for local storage and processing, with a pseudo-OAI (ODL-Union) interface for access.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 -
Technical
Requirements		 mySQL or similar database, with access to create tables in a database that has already been created
- Perl, with modules DBI, DBD::mySQL (or DBD::Pg or ...)
- Ability to run CGI scripts
 
Support  
  Installation instruction An Introduction at http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/odl/software/dbunion/
  E-mail Support E-mail, mailing list
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability DBUnion Archive Merger Component can be used without changes
  Programming Perl modules
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Tool Name

DSpace
  Programmer Mick Bass, Margret Branschofsky, Peter Breton, Peter Carmichael, William Cattey, Eric Celeste, Dan Chudnov, Joyce Ng, David Stuve, Robert Tansley
  Organisation HP Labs and MIT Libraries
  Description- URL DSpace Federation site: http://www.dspace.org/
DSpace MIT site: http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/
  Download- URL http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description DSpace is an open source software platform that enables institutions to:
  • capture and describe digital works using a submission workflow module
  • distribute an institution's digital works over the web through a search and retrieval system
  • preserve digital works over the long term
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interfaces: JDBC,Search
Metadata format: D.C Qualifiers
Technical
Requirements		 Tomcat 4.0, JDK1.3, Apache 1.3 (optional), Ant 1.4, PostgreSQL 7.2+
 
Support  
  Installation instruction an Introduction at http://dspace.org/technology/system-docs/install.html
  E-mail Support E-mail, mailing list, no install support.
  FAQ Yes
Evaluation  
  Reusability
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability Dspace can be used without changes.
  Programming Three layers java application architecture.
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Tool Name

Eprints
  Programmer Christopher Gutteridge
  Organisation University of Southampton
  Description- URL http://www.eprints.org/
  Download- URL http://software.eprints.org/download.php
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description Eprints Software to run centralised, discipline-based as well as distributed, institution-based archives of scholarly publications. The software is OAI compliant, i.e. metadata can be harvested from repositories running the software using the OAI metadata harvesting protocol.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interfaces: Database, Search
Metadata format: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 UNIX-like operating system, Apache WWW server, Perl programming language, MySQL database
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://software.eprints.org/docs/php/installation.php#installation
  E-mail Support E-mail, mailing list
  FAQ Yes
Evaluation  
  Reusability 72 known archives running Eprints software worldwide.
See the lists at: http://software.eprints.org/
  Additional performances Support language feature.
  Adaptability Eprints can be used without changes and customized to change the sites.
  Programming Perl web application with modules.
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Tool Name

ETD-db OAI Extensions
  Programmer Hussein Suleman
  Organisation Virginia Tech
  Description- URL http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/ndltd/ndltd.html
  Download- URL http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/ndltd/ndltd.html
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description This is a server extension that allows to become an OAI Data Provider with a minimum of effort.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database
Metadata formats: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 Anywhere where ETD-db works.
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/ndltd/ndltd.html
  E-mail Contact E-mail, reply very fast.
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by repository 'DuetT'
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability ETD-db OAI Extensions can be used after install.
  Programming Object-oriented perl classes,
Component-oriented programming code layout.
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Tool Name

Greenstone
  Programmer Stefan Boddie, Katherine Don, Michael Dewsnip
  Organisation University of Waikato
  Description- URL http://www.greenstone.org/english/home.html
  Download- URL http://www.greenstone.org/english/download.html
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description Greenstone is a suite of software which has the ability to serve digital library collections and build new collections. It provides a new way of organising information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interfaces: Database, Search, Metadata, Collection
It doesn't support an OAI Repository implementation. But a Greenstone collection can be built from the records exported from an OAI data provider.
Technical
Requirements		 Greenstone has been tested on Windows 3.1/3.11/95/98/Me/NT/2000, most distributions of GNU/Linux, Darwin (Mac OS X), Solaris, and FreeBSD.
Apache Webserver, Perl, Gnu Database Manager, GDBM.
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Kazakh at http://www.greenstone.org/english/docs.html
  E-mail Support E-mail, Support requests, mailing lists
  FAQ Yes
Evaluation  
  Reusability Examples of Greenstone can be viewed at: http://www.greenstone.org/english/examples.html
  Additional performances Greenstone with extra functionalities (e.g. export to CD-ROM, utilities to the Windows Application, Organiser) can be simply installed.
  Adaptability Greenstone is open-source software. It can be contributed and improved under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
  Programming cgi based Perl modules
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Tool Name

i-TOR
  Programmer -
  Organisation The Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services
  Description- URL http://www.i-tor.org/en/toon
  Download- URL http://www.eurocris.org/cgi-bin/odbic.exe/box/object.odb?ID=494
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description i-Tor - Tools and technology for Open Repositories - is a web technology which enables you to run an OAI data provider, an OAI service provider, a Content Management System (CMS) and a Publication tool. Various types of information can be presented through a web interface, no matter where the displayed information comes from or what its format is. i-Tor makes it easy to create repositories, collaboratories, information portals, websites, database retrieval, and so on. Even small (research) institutes can easily implement and use the application-toolbox.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Supported Interfaces and Metadata formats:
  • Database (Oracle and MySql)
  • File systems
  • Simple search interface
  • OAI Archives
  • Entering data in different formats (ASCII text, HTML,RTF,PDF)
  • Any Metadata format
Technical
Requirements		 Platform independent: Java-built , MySQL/Oracle, Jetty Web Server.
 
Support  
  Installation instruction -
  E-mail -
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances OAI access (viewing functionality only) and SOAP (all functionality) are planned.
  Adaptability i-Tor allows institutions to extend certain aspects of the interface using Java (for example, to create custom views for search results).
  Programming Object oriented java programming
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Tool Name

MyCoRe
  Programmer MyCoRe Team
  Organisation University Essen
  Description- URL http://www.mycore.de/
  Download- URL There is only a demo version.
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description MyCoRe is an Open Source project for the development of Digital Library and archive solutions (or, put more generally, 'Content Repositories' >> CoRe). In the MyCoRe project a group of universities is working on the development of a shared software core for such applications. This core will be adjustable to local requirements and easy to modify. This is expressed by the 'My' in MyCoRe, which represents the local adaptability. On the basis of this core which will be available under the open source GNU General Public License, specific local applications will emerge at the participating institutes. The technical base of the system is formed of Java class libraries, XML technology and the database backend IBM Content Manager and IBM DB2. Core Components The Core Functionalities of MyCoRe include the following: Document and Person Metadata Internal Filesystem Hierarchical Classification System User and Rights Management Workflow and Workbasket Functions User and Author Interface Distributed Search Function and an Interface for OAI.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database.
Metadata format: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		  
 
Support  
  Installation instruction No
  E-mail Support E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by MILESS (Digital multimedia learning and teaching documents in Essen)
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming Java, XML, XSL
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Tool Name

my.OAI
  Programmer -
  Organisation my.OAI
  Description- URL http://www.myoai.com/
  Download- URL http://www.myoai.com/downloads/
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description my.OAI is a very simple Perl based OAI Harvester. my.OAI is a full-featured search engine to a selected list of metadata databases from the Open Archives Initiative project. my.OAI can be tailored by the user to suit individual interests and provides the following features:
  • Forms based query formulation
  • Viewing search results either merged together, or as meta-results, or separated by database
  • Automatic display of summaries when viewing search results
  • Display of similar documents when viewing documents
  • Display of recommended documents when viewing documents
  • Automatic mark-up of retrieved documents with search links
  • Search history listing searches made and documents retrieved
  • Saving searches for later re-use (with an SDI option)
  • Saving documents in folders
  • Emailing documents to othersmy.
OAI can be accessed either as a guest user or by creating an account.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database
Metadata format: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 MPS Information Server, MPS Information Server Perl Interface and the MPS Information Server Search Interface developed by FS Consulting, Inc.
 
Support  
  Installation instruction No
  E-mail Support E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability My.OAI can be used without changes.
  Programming Perl modules
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Tool Name

NCSTRL/Dienst
  Programmer -
  Organisation Networked Computer Science Technical Research Library
  Description- URL http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cdlrg/dienst/software/DienstSoftware.htm
  Download- URL Not found
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP (Dienst protocol)
  Description Dienst is a system for configuring a set of individual services running on distributed servers to cooperate in providing the services of a digital library.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database, collection system, Dienst protocol
Technical
Requirements		 Any computer system that supports Perl
 
Support  
  Installation instruction http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cdlrg/dienst/software/DienstSoftware.htm
  E-mail Yes
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by
  • National Library of Portugal
  • NCSTRL, the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library.
  • CoRR, the Computing Research Repository.
  • The Open Archives Initiative.
  • ETRDL, the ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library.
  • Cornell University Library Historical Math Book Collection
  • Cornell University Library Making of America Collection
  • Hein online Retrospective Law Journals
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming Perl modules
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Tool Name

OAICat
  Programmer Jeffrey Young
  Organisation OCLC Research
  Description- URL http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/cat.shtm
  Download- URL http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/cat.shtm
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description OAICat is a Java Servlet web application providing an OAI-PMH v.2.0 repository framework. This framework can be customized to work with arbitrary data repositories by implementing some Java interfaces.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interfaces: JDBC
Metadata Formats: oai_etdms, oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 Tomcat web Server, Java 1.3
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good introduction at http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/cat.shtm
  E-mail Support with email, reply very fast
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability easy to reuse, e.g.
  Additional performances OAICat package with customized Implementations for file system, JDBC
  Adaptability OAICat package for file system can be used without changes
OAICat package for JDBC can be adapted by customers generically
  Programming Java servlet application with modules
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Tool Name

OAI Data Provider Script HUBerlin
  Programmer Uwe Müller
  Organisation Humboldt University
  Description- URL http://dochost.rz.hu-berlin.de/oai2.0/
  Download- URL http://dochost.rz.hu-berlin.de/oai2.0/
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description This implementation completely complies to OAI-PMH 2.0, supporting the rapid deployment of an OAI compatible interface to an existing web server/database. for example: Apache web server/Sybase
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database, Web server
Technical
Requirements		 Sybase database, Apache web server, PHP4
 
Support  
  Installation instruction -
  E-mail Contact email
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by Data provider HU Berlin
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability OAI Data Provider Script HUBerlin can be used after install
  Programming PHP modules
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Tool Name

OAIHarvester
  Programmer Jeffrey Young
  Organisation OCLC Research
  Description- URL http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/harvester.shtm
  Download- URL http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/harvester.shtm
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description OAIHarvester is a Java application providing an OAI-PMH v2.0 harvester framework. This framework can be customized to perform arbitrary operations on harvested data by implementing some Java interfaces.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Metadata Formats: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 Tomcat web Server, Java 1.3
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good introduction at: http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/harvester.shtm
  E-mail Support with email, reply very fast
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability easy to reuse ,e.g.
  • used by Graduate Institute of Library and Information Science
  • used by National Taiwan Normal University
  • used by EUR (http://www.eur.nl)
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability OAIHarvester can be used without changes
  Programming Java Servlet application with modules
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Tool Name

OAI Implementation for Windows
  Programmer Tom Habing
  Organisation University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Description- URL http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/ProviderTools/
  Download- URL http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=47963
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description This is a simple, illustrative implementation of the OAI metadata protocol, using Microsoft Windows NT server technologies
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interfaces: ODBC
Metadata format: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 Operating System / Platform:
  • Microsoft Windows NT 4 Server
  • Microsoft Windows NT 4 Workstation
  • Microsoft 2000 Advanced Server
  • Microsoft 2000 Professional
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), version 4 or higher
Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP): ASP modules included use VBScript
The Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 4.0 Core Services
Java Components: JRE 1.3 (or 1.4)- Java runtime environment available at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)
 
Support  
  Installation instruction In the read-me file by download.
  E-mail Contact E-mail, support requests, bugs
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances Metadata can be stored in XML files
Metadata can be stored in html files
Metadata can be stored in Microsoft Access
  Adaptability OAI Java Implementation for Windows can be used without changes
  Programming Object-oriented VB programming
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Tool Name

OAI Java Implementation for Linux/Windows
  Programmer Tom Habing
  Organisation University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Description- URL http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/ProviderTools/
  Download- URL http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=47963
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description This is a simple, illustrative implementation of the OAI metadata protocol, using Java.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: JDBC
Metadata format: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 Platform independent, Apache HTTP Server Version 1.3 or higher, Tomcat servlet container for Servlet/JSP, Version 4.0 or higher, Xalan-Java packages for XML parsing and XSLT transformation, MySQL
 
Support  
  Installation instruction In the read-me file by download
  E-mail Contact E-mail, support requests, bugs
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by Université du Québec à Chicoutimi - Documentation régionale (http://sdeir.uqac.ca/)
  Additional performances Metadata can be stored in XML files
Metadata can be stored in html files
  Adaptability OAI Java Implementation for Linux can be used without changes.
  Programming Object-oriented Java Servlet programming
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Tool Name

oai-perl library
  Programmer Tim Brody
  Organisation University of Southampton
  Description- URL http://oai-perl.sourceforge.net/
  Download- URL http://oai-perl.sourceforge.net/
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP or DP
  Description A library of PERL language classes that allow the rapid deployment of an OAI compatible interface to an existing web server/database.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database, Web server
Technical
Requirements		 Perl 5.6.x, ability to run CGI scripts
 
Support  
  Installation instruction In the read-me file by download.
  E-mail Contact email
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability oai-perl library can be used after install
  Programming Object-oriented Perl modules
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Tool Name

OAIster
  Programmer -
  Organisation University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services
  Description- URL http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
  Download- URL -
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description The University of Michigan Library service establishes a broad, generic, information retrieval resource for information about publicly available digital library resources provided by the research library community. This service is built through a collaboration that relies on the University of Illinois's metadata harvester
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database, search
Technical
Requirements		  
 
Support  
  Installation instruction -
  E-mail Yes
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming -
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Tool Name

OMNIS 2
  Programmer -
  Organisation Technical University Munich
  Description- URL http://sunbayer59.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/projekte/omnis2/publications/TUM-I0109.pdf
  Download- URL -
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description OMNIS 2 is a library system, which allows users to indicate multimedia documents in full text and to search.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database, Web server, XML, XSLT
Formats: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 -
 
Support  
  Installation instruction -
  E-mail Contact email
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by university Munich
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming Java components
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Tool Name

Open Video
  Programmer -
  Organisation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Description- URL http://www.open-video.org/
  Download- URL -
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description The Open Video is a shared digital video repository and test collection intended to meet the needs of researchers in a wide variety of areas related to digital video. The Open Video collection currently contains video or metadata for 1865 digitised video segments.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database
Technical
Requirements		 -
 
Support  
  Installation instruction -
  E-mail Contact email
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming -
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Tool Name

OPUS
  Programmer -
  Organisation University of Stuttgart
  Description- URL http://opus.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/doku/english/index.html
  Download- URL -
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description OPUS allow to convert the electronic document to PDF (portable document format) and write some metadata about it, which will be stored in Dublin Core format using a mSQL-database. Retrieval will therefore have the typical functionality of other well-known online databases - different search-fields, truncation-options, Boolean operators etc.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: database, search
Metadata Formats: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 -
 
Support  
  Installation instruction -
  E-mail Contact email, mailing list.
  FAQ Yes
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by Online Publications of the University of Stuttgart
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming -
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Tool Name

ParaTools
  Programmer -
  Organisation Southampton University
  Description- URL http://paracite.eprints.org/developers/
  Download- URL http://paracite.eprints.org/developers/downloads.html (not activ)
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description ParaTools is a set of Perl modules for the handling of references. It includes:
  • Reference parsing modules and templates
  • Document parsing modules (Experimental)
  • OpenURL creation/processing routines
  • Parsing examples
  • Web Service examples
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: database, search
Technical
Requirements		 -
 
Support  
  Installation instruction -
  E-mail Contact email, mailing list
  FAQ Yes
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by http://paracite.eprints.org/
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming Perl modules
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Tool Name

PHP OAI Data Provider
  Programmer Heinrich Stamerjohanns
  Organisation University of Oldenburg
  Description- URL http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/oai/
  Download- URL http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/oai/
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description This implementation completely complies to OAI-PMH 2.0, including the support of on-the-fly output compression which may significantly reduce the amount of data being transferred.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database
Metadata Formats: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 -
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Introduction at: http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/oai/
  E-mail Contact E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by repository 'IFEApub'
  Additional performances support compressed XML, connect to many existing databases, by using PEAR abstract layer.
  Adaptability PHP OAI Data Provider can be used without changes quite easy to configure
  Programming PHP modules
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Tool Name

Rapid Visual OAI Tool
  Programmer Sathish Kumar Kothamasa
  Organisation Old Dominion University
  Description- URL http://rvot.sourceforge.net/
  Download- URL http://rvot.sourceforge.net/downloads.htm
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description Rapid Visual OAI Tool (RVOT) can be used to graphically construct an OAI-PMH repository from a collection of files. The records in the original collection can be in any one of the acceptable format. The format currently supported are RFC1807, Marc subset & COSATI formats. RVOT helps to define the mapping visually from a native format to oai_dc format, and once this is done the tool can respond to OAI-PMH requests. The tool is self-contained; it comes with a lightweight http server and OAI-PMH request handler and is written in Java.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Collection Systems: Collections of files
Metadata Formats: oai_dc, RFC1807, Marc subset & COSATI formats
Technical
Requirements		 Windows 2000/NT/XP, Linux or Unix
Java (JDK 1.3.1_02 and above)
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good instruction at: http://rvot.sourceforge.net/package/readme.txt
  E-mail Contact E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability Rapid Visual OAI Tool can be used without changes
RVOT architecture can be easily extended to support other metadata formats
  Programming Java packages with metadata converter.
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Tool Name

Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT)
  Programmer -
  Organisation University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Description- URL http://scout.wisc.edu/research/SPT/
  Download- URL http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/SPT/downloads.php
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description The Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) allows groups or organisations that have a collection of knowledge or resources they want to share via the World Wide Web to put that collection online without making a big investment in technical resources or expertise.
The SPT provides a number of features:
  • Cross-Field Searching (Advanced Search);
  • Metadata field editor, which allows portal administrators the ability to add, delete, or disable a variety of metadata fields;
  • Resource comments by Users;
  • Intelligent User Agents;
  • Resource Quality Ratings by Users;
  • Suggested Resource Referrals (Recommender System);
  • Support for RSS channel export and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0;
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interfaces: Database, Search, OAI Protocol2.0
Metadata Formats: DC
Technical
Requirements		 The Scout Portal Toolkit requires a web server with PHP 4.0.6 and MySQL 3.23 or later. PHP must be installed with MySQL support.
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/SPT/downloads.php
  E-mail Support E-mail, mailing lists
  FAQ Yes
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances SPT can be easily configured and used without change.
  Adaptability The SPT user interface is easily to customize through the "Customize System Appearance" option on the Administration menu. The metadata field set in SPT is easily modifiable and expandable by the portal administrator.
  Programming PHP 4 modules
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Tool Name

SISIS-Elektra
  Programmer -
  Organisation Sisis GMBH
  Description- URL http://www.sisis.de/dasat/index.php3?cid=100047&sid=dasat3ef2ca4b7f1bc0x52071700x1056098891
  Download- URL -
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description SISIS Elektra is a component system for the structure of information portals - user-friendly, easily administration and expandable and with most modern technology. It can be used and in combination with OPAC systems or other news services.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 -
Technical
Requirements		 -
 
Support  
  Installation instruction -
  E-mail Contact E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by technical university Munich (http://www3.in.tum.de/)
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming -
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Tool Name

Viser
  Programmer Gary Simons
  Organisation SIL International
  Description- URL http://www.language-archives.org/viser
  Download- URL http://www.language-archives.org/tools/viser/viser.php4.txt
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description A virtual service provider for displaying selected OLAC metadata
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Supported Interfaces and Metadata formats: MySQL database, XML processing, any Metadata format
Technical
Requirements		 PHP4, Webserver, XSLT
 
Support  
  Installation instruction -
  E-mail -
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by
  • service: Open Language Archives
  • repository: OLACA.language-archives.org
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability -
  Programming PHP4 programming, XSL processing
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Tool Name

VT ETD-db
  Programmer Anthony Atkins
  Organisation Virginia Tech
  Description- URL http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/
  Download- URL http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/developer/install.html#download
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) SP
  Description -
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interface: Database, Search
Metadata formats: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 Solaris, Mysql, Perl, CGI.pm, The DBI and DBD:Mysql modules for perl, The Tie-IxHash module for perl, Web Server Software
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/developer/install.html
  E-mail Contact E-mail, reply very fast
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by software" ETD-db OAI Extensions"
Used by repository 'DuetT'
Used by Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
  Additional performances VT ETD-db can be changed by configuration files, graphics, web pages, etc. to customize the ETD-db for the customer's site.
  Adaptability VT ETD-db can be used after install.
  Programming Object-oriented perl classes,
Component-oriented programming code layout.
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Tool Name

VTOAI OAI-PMH Perl Implementation
  Programmer Hussein Suleman
  Organisation Virginia Tech
  Description- URL http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/vtoai/vtoai.html
  Download- URL http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/vtoai/vtoai.html
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description This toolkit implements the skeleton of the OAI-PMH v2.0 in an object-oriented fashion, thus hiding the details of the protocol from code that is derived from the predefined class.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Metadata formats: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 Perl, Web server with ability to run CGI scripts
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/vtoai/vtoai.html
  E-mail Contact E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by software 'XMLFile'
Used by Utrecht University Library
Used by EUR (http://www.eur.nl)
Used by Université Libre de Bruxelles
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability No compilation - Perl scripts need only be copied
Minimal changes required to create a working implementation
  Programming Object-oriented perl classes
Component-oriented programming code layout
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Tool Name

XMLFile
  Programmer Hussein Suleman
  Organisation Virginia Tech
  Description- URL http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/xmlfile/xmlfile.html
  Download- URL http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/xmlfile/xmlfile.html
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description This is a data provider module that operates over a set of XML files that contain the metadata. It is meant to require a minimal of effort while retaining all the flexibility of the OAI protocol.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Metadata formats: oai_dc
Technical
Requirements		 Perl, Web server with ability to run CGI scripts
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/xmlfile/xmlfile.html
  E-mail Contact E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability Used by Repository 'Eldorado'
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability No compilation - Perl scripts need only be copied,
Minimal changes required to create a working implementation
  Programming Component-oriented perl programming.
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Tool Name

ZMARCO
  Programmer Tom Habing
  Organisation University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Description- URL http://zmarco.sourceforge.net/
  Download- URL http://zmarco.sourceforge.net/
Purpose  
  User group (SP/DP) DP
  Description ZMARCO is an Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) 2.0 compliant data provider. The 'Z' in ZMARCO stands for Z39.50; 'MARC' stands for MAchine-Readable Cataloguing; and the 'O' stands for OAI, as in the Open Archives Initiative. ZMARCO allows MARC records which are already available through a Z39.50 server to relatively easily be made available via the OAI-PMH.
  Supported Interfaces,
Collection Systems,
Formats		 Interfaces: ODBC, Z39.50
Metadata formats: oai_dc, oai_dc_1.1, marc21, oai_marc, mods
Technical
Requirements		 Windows 2000
Internet Information Server 5 (IIS 5)
Active Server Pages (ASP)
Accessible (no user id or password required) Z39.50 Server supporting the following features:
  • USmarc Record Syntax (may be extended to support other MARC syntaxes in the future)
  • Bib-1 Use Attribute 31, Publication Year
  • Bib-1 Use Attribute 12, Control Number
  • No limit on the number search hits available for one query
 
Support  
  Installation instruction Good Introduction at http://zmarco.sourceforge.net/README.html
  E-mail Contact E-mail
  FAQ No
Evaluation  
  Reusability -
  Additional performances -
  Adaptability ZMARCO can be used after easy configuration
  Programming Component-oriented programming code with different languages (VB, JScript)
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Overview:    Technical Validation Questionnaire  |   OAI in Europe
Experiences:    OAI-PMH pilot  |   Implementation of OAI-Services
Inventories:    Open Archive Tools  |   Services (pdf-file, 517 KB)  |   Repositories (pdf-file, 275 KB) 		 
 
 Imprint  

The Open Archives Forum (OAF) is an IST– Accompanying Measures project (IST- 2001-320015).
The partners of OAF are: University of Bath-UKOLN (United Kingdom), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione-CNR (Italy) and Computer- and Media Service (Computing Center) of Humboldt University (Germany).
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