Harvesting Issues

This page collects discussion of various harvesting issues.

Status of OAI Compliance

Many of us with registries are using the OAI Explorer, http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/, to test our harvesting interfaces for compliance. Below are links to attached files that display the results from the Explorer's "Test the specified/selected baseURL" link:

• NCSA Publishing Portal (baseURL=http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/nvo/oai.pl):
  Results as of 11 Mar 2005

• HEASARC_oai.txt: HEASARC resulst... Error result in test 24 is:

------ Response from Xerces Schema Validation ------
[Error] re.u7nQQD:18:347: UndeclaredPrefix: Cannot resolve 'vg:Authority' as a QName: the prefix 'vg' is not declared.
[Error] re.u7nQQD:18:347: cvc-elt.4.1: The value 'vg:Authority' of attribute 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance,type' of element 'Resource' is not a valid QName.
[Error] re.u7nQQD:18:347: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'Resource'.
[Error] re.u7nQQD:18:347: UndeclaredPrefix: Cannot resolve 'vg:Authority' as a QName: the prefix 'vg' is not declared.
[Error] re.u7nQQD:18:347: cvc-attribute.3: The value 'vg:Authority' of attribute 'xsi:type' on element 'Resource' is not valid with respect to its type, 'QName'.
/tmp/re.u7nQQD: 498;11;1 ms (21 elems, 21 attrs, 0 spaces, 498 chars)
------- End of Xerces Schema Validation Report  -------
------ Start of XML Response ------

• STSCI Searchable Registry (baseURL=http://nvo.stsci.edu/voregistry/nvo/oai.aspx):
  ST_OAIExplorerTests_.txt: Results as of 03/24/2005