<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>For the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata
- Harvesting (OAI-PMH) there are two groups of 'participants':
- Data Providers and Service Providers. Data Providers (open
- archives, repositories) provide free access to metadata, and
- may, but do not necessarily, offer free access to full texts
- or other resources. OAI-PMH provides an easy to implement, low
- barrier solution for Data Providers. Service Providers use the
- OAI interfaces of the Data Providers to harvest and store
- metadata. Note that this means that there are no live search
- requests to the Data Providers; rather, services are based on
- the harvested data via OAI-PMH. Koha at present can only act
- as a Data Provider. It can not harvest from other
- repositories. The biggest stumbling block to having Koha
- harvest from other repositories is that MARC is the only
- metadata format that Koha indexes natively. Visit <ulink url="http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/english/page3.htm">http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/english/page3.htm</ulink>
- for diagrams of how OAI-PMH works.</para>
+ <para>Once enabled you can visit http://YOURKOHACATALOG/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl to see
+ your file. For the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
+ (OAI-PMH) there are two groups of 'participants': Data Providers and Service
+ Providers. Data Providers (open archives, repositories) provide free access to
+ metadata, and may, but do not necessarily, offer free access to full texts or
+ other resources. OAI-PMH provides an easy to implement, low barrier solution for
+ Data Providers. Service Providers use the OAI interfaces of the Data Providers to
+ harvest and store metadata. Note that this means that there are no live search
+ requests to the Data Providers; rather, services are based on the harvested data
+ via OAI-PMH. Koha at present can only act as a Data Provider. It can not harvest
+ from other repositories. The biggest stumbling block to having Koha harvest from
+ other repositories is that MARC is the only metadata format that Koha indexes
+ natively. Visit <ulink url="http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/english/page3.htm"
+ >http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/english/page3.htm</ulink> for diagrams of how
+ OAI-PMH works.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<section id="OAI-PMHservice">
<title>OAI-PMH</title>
-
- <para/>
+ <para>For the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) there are
+ two groups of 'participants': Data Providers and Service Providers. Data Providers (open
+ archives, repositories) provide free access to metadata, and may, but do not necessarily,
+ offer free access to full texts or other resources. OAI-PMH provides an easy to implement,
+ low barrier solution for Data Providers. Service Providers use the OAI interfaces of the
+ Data Providers to harvest and store metadata. Note that this means that there are no live
+ search requests to the Data Providers; rather, services are based on the harvested data via
+ OAI-PMH. </para>
+ <para>Koha at present can only act as a Data Provider. It can not harvest from other
+ repositories. The biggest stumbling block to having Koha harvest from other repositories is
+ that MARC is the only metadata format that Koha indexes natively. Visit <ulink
+ url="http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/english/page3.htm"
+ >http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/english/page3.htm</ulink> for diagrams of how OAI-PMH
+ works.</para>
+ <para>Learn more about OAI-PMH at: <ulink url="http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/"
+ >http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/</ulink></para>
+ <para>To enable OAI-PMH in Koha edit the <link linkend="OAI-PMH">OAI-PMH</link> preference.
+ Once enabled you can visit http://YOURKOHACATALOG/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl to see your
+ file.</para>
<section id="oaiconfsample">
<title>Sample OAI Conf File</title>