Hi,
I am a complete newbie to Perl (and to Code4Lib) and am trying to set up a
harvester to get complete metadata records from oai-pmh repositories. My
current approach is to use things already built as much as possible -
specifically the Net::Oai::Harvester
(http://search.cpan.org/~esummers/OAI-Harvester-1.0/lib/Net/OAI/Harvester.pm).
The code I'm using is located in the synopsis and specific parts of it seem to
work with some samples I've tried. For example, if I submit a request for a
list of sets to the oai url for arXiv.org (http://arXiv.org/oai2) I get the
correct list.
The error I run into reads "can't call listRecords() on an undefined value in
*filename* line *#*". listRecords() seems to have been an issue in past
iterations but I'm not sure how to get around it.
At the moment it looks like this:
## list all the records in a repository
my $list = $harvester->listRecords(
metadataPrefix = 'oai_dc'
);
Any help (or Perl resources) would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Eka
MLIS Candidate, UBC iSchool
