All- Very much a newbie at all of this, so forgive my naïve questions in advance.
I am testing ways to build a union catalog of digital image repositories in Illinois. Right now, I am simply trying to harvest through OAI the ContentDM collections (see http://www.finditillinois.org:1066/xmlui/community-list). What I would like to end up with is a metadata record and icon for each item in every collection in Illinois. I have been able to quite successfully harvest all of the collections from the Chicago Public Library. However, I did this laboriously, through the Perl module Net::OAI::Harvest. I then took the identifier for each item, converted it into a URI string which would fetch the icon, fed the 1000s of individual URIs into a file and then ran wget against the file to fetch the icons. I then wrote another Perl program to assemble all of the metadata and icons into appropriate import files and then batch imported them into dSpace. Needless to say, this is not a clean nor an efficient way of doing this. The OAI harvest in dSpace is lovely, and works like a charm; however, since (as far as I have been able to tell) ContentDM doesn't support OAI-ORE, I can't magically snag the icons (or anything else squishy) with the metadata. Have any of you accomplished this (to me) heroic feat? Failing a clean way of doing this, and short of rewriting the OAI harvest java code, I am also more than happy to take a mapfile, create a file of URIs, wget them, and then update the records. Does OAI harvesting leave any kind of mapfile? I couldn't tell. Thanks for any help you can give, Andrew Bullen ************************************************ Disclaimer - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and contain privileged or copyright information. You must not present this message to another party without gaining permission from the sender. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use this email or the information contained in it for any purpose other than to notify the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State. ************************************************
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