Download all the records from a digital library. Please insert an OAI-PMH URL, select the metadata prefix and check out the results.

REST API

OAIPMH.com is completely FREE for personal or academic use.

Large scale use of the OAIPMH.com service via its REST API as well as technical and/or scientific support is available on a fee.

Please contact the author, Vangelis Banos, to learn more.

About

The OAI-PMH validator and data extractor tool is a free service created by Vangelis Banos. The aim of this project it to support digital repository operators and developers by automating the harvesting and validation of OAI-PMH services. The author has accumulated 10+ years of relevant experience working on projects like:

• aggregator.libver.gr - The Hellenic aggregator for Europeana (2010 -),
• openarchives.gr - Greek digital libraries search engine (2006 - 2012),
• www.libsearch.com - Open Access Digital Libraries search engine (2008 - 2014 now closed),
• http://saas.ekt.gr/content/Interoperability-Testing - National Documentation Centre of Greece Digital Library Interoperability Testing Service (2011 - 2015).

About OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative. It is used to harvest (or collect) the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives. An implementation of OAI-PMH must support representing metadata in Dublin Core, but may also support additional representations.

The protocol is usually just referred to as the OAI Protocol. Check full article in wikipedia »

What is my OAI-PMH URL?

The OAI-PMH URL address of a digital library varies depending on the software it is based on. Please check out some widely used software and their Sample URLs.

These URLs are just the defaults and can be changed by the library's administrator.

How does OAIPMH.com works?

OAIPMH.com is a web application. It works in the background on our servers and presents the final output to the users. There is no need to install software in your computer, everything is done using a web browser

What kind of validation tests are performed?

1. Check HTTP Response code.
2. Check HTTP Response document content type.
3. Check XML document file size.
4. Check HTTP Request & Response Time.
5. Check XML document compliance against the OAI-PMH XML Schema http://oaipmh.com/files/OAI-PMH.xsd.

6. Check OAI-PMH Protocol version.
7. Check Administrator email address.
8. Check ListSets command for sets.
9. Check available Metadata formats.
10. Check Total Records number.
11. Check Dublin Core metadata in Records.
12. Check ESE metadata in Records.
13. Check XML document compliance against the ESE XML Schema http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/ese/ESE-V3.3.xsd
14. Also check various ESE XML elements for common mistakes such as
    • Check for invalid europeana:isShownAt URL
    • Check for invalid europeana:isShownBy URL
15. Check various metadata elements in Records:
    • Empty dc:title
    • Empty or invalid dc:identifier
    • Empty setSpec

I want an extra feature of some kind, what can I do?

Please contact the author, Vangelis Banos. Any suggestions for improvements and new features are always welcome.

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