Introduction
AstaOnline offers a harvesting repository to expose metadata in the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) standard. Any harvester that accepts MODS data can perform OAI-PMH requests to our repository.
Deployment
The harvesting application is hosted on a funn machine. It will be accessible from outside very soon. Now it is only accessible in http://localhost:8080/oaicat/
Endpoints
Like any harvesting repository, it offers nine standard API endpoints. These are-
Against the list requests, we respond with ten results at max. If there are more items in the list, a resumption token is added with the response. Harvester will make the next request with the provided token.
Date-Time Formats
We allow both data-only and date-time for search on a range. Allowed formats are-
yyyy-MM-dd. Example: 2020-01-31
yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ. Example: 2020-01-31T00:05:54Z
Available Sets
A set represents an institute. Currently, available sets are-
ASTA
NABI
STKU
APTE
Supported Metadata prefixes
mods is the only metadata prefix we do support.