[Metadatalibrarians] MarcEdit's OAI Harvester

Thu Feb 5 08:48:47 PST 2009

Teressa,

The WSU experiences might be helpful to you. Please click the program title
"Optimized Metadata Repurposing in a Library Using MarcEdit" at
http://alcts.ala.org/cffigwiki/index.php?title=ALA_Midwinter_2009

(By the way, Reese was our ETD Harvesting consultant last year.)

Thanks,

Sai

Sai Deng

Metadata Catalog Librarian

Wichita State University Libraries

1845 Fairmount

Wichita, KS 67260-0068

Phone: (316) 978-5138

Fax:       (316) 978-3048

Email: sai.deng at wichita.edu

             saideng at gmail.com

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, <
metadatalibrarians-request at lists.monarchos.com> wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. Re: MarcEdit's OAI Harvester (Paul Butler)
>   2. Call for papers: The 4th International Conference for
>      Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2009 (ICITST-2009)
>      (info at icitst.org)
>   3. Re: MarcEdit's OAI Harvester ? (Kristin E. Martin)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue,  3 Feb 2009 17:26:23 -0600 (CST)
> From: Paul Butler <butler9 at illinois.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Metadatalibrarians] MarcEdit's OAI Harvester
> To: metadatalibrarians at lists.monarchos.com
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> Perhaps this tutorial could be helpful:
>
> http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/497
>
> Cheers, Paul
>
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> >   1. MarcEdit's OAI Harvester ? (Keenan, Teressa)
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> >Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:38:19 -0700
> >From: "Keenan, Teressa" <teressa.keenan at mso.umt.edu>
> >Subject: [Metadatalibrarians] MarcEdit's OAI Harvester ?
> >To: "A listserv for Metadata Librarians"
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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?
> >
> >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:
> >
> >"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?
> >
> >Teressa
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> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:46:09 -0600
> From: "Kristin E. Martin" <kmarti at uic.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Metadatalibrarians] MarcEdit's OAI Harvester ?
> To: A listserv for Metadata Librarians
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> I'm not familiar with MarcEdit's OAI harvester, but there might be
> another way for you to get MARC records for your catalog.  I'm assuming
> you're subscribed to the Serial Set through LexisNexis, and if so, they
> provide the records already in MARC format:
> http://academic.lexisnexis.com/product-information/machine-cataloging.aspx
>
> You can contact your representative for the password to access the
> records.  I haven't worked with these recently, but I assume they are
> still available for libraries.
>
> Kristin
>
> Kristin E. Martin
> Metadata Librarian
> Catalog Department (MC 234)
> 2-390 Richard J. Daley Library
> University of Illinois at Chicago
> 801 S. Morgan
> Chicago, IL  60607
> 312-413-5052
> 312-413-0424 (Fax)
> kmarti at uic.edu
>
> Keenan, Teressa wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > "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?
> >
> > Teressa
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