[Metadatalibrarians] MarcEdit's OAI Harvester

[Paul Butler]

Perhaps this tutorial could be helpful:

http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/497

Cheers, Paul


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>Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:38:19 -0700
>From: "Keenan, Teressa" <teressa.keenan at mso.umt.edu>
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>Anyone out there using MarcEdit's OAI Harvester to download Dublin Core
>Records?  Is there another OAI harvester that I should look into getting
>that would work better? 
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>My end goal is to access the access the Dublin core records for the U.S.
>Congressional Serial Set that are available for subscribers to the
>database And then convert them into MARC so I can then add them to our
>catalog.  This is new territory for me so any help would be greatly
>appreciated.  
> 
>I was given an http address to access the Dublin core records (I'm not
>sure I'm supposed to share it publically but the format of the address
>was http://somewordshere.com/oai/harvest.xml) but I'm not sure what to
>do with it.  I was unable to find any tutorials on using the OAI
>harvester in MarcEdit so I tried just using the address I was given in
>the server address box and left the default settings in the metadata
>type and the crosswalk path.  Hit ok and I got the following error
>message:
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>"The defined crosswalk does not appear to exist.  Please verify that
>this file exists."
>
>Obviously there's more to it than that. Is there an OAI harvesting for
>Dummies out there?
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>Teressa
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