Overview

OAI defined

jOAI is a Java-based OAI software that supports the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), version 2.0. The protocol establishes methods for sharing individual metadata files that are XML documents. The software contains a data provider that makes XML metadata files available to others and a data harvester that can get XML metadata files from others.

Provider

Use the data provider to make metadata files available to others via the OAI protocol. Set up the Provider. If only harvesting metadata files, provider setup is not necessary.

See the Provider documentation for detailed information about the jOAI data provider.

To harvest from this data provider, use this baseURL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oai/provider

Harvester

Use the harvester to get metadata files from OAI data providers. Set up the Harvester. If only providing metadata files, harvester setup is not necessary.

See the Harvester documentation for detailed information about the jOAI harvester.

Search

Use the Search page to view and find items in the data provider. Free-text searches operate over the full text of all metadata files. Searches may be limited by set and/or keyword terms.

See the ODL Search documentation for detailed information about the search functionality available in jOAI.

jOAI system requirements

The jOAI software may be used on Windows, Mac or Unix platforms. The following components are needed to operate the software:

• oai.war - the jOAI software
• JSP 2.0 compliant servlet container such as Apache Tomcat version 5.x or later
• Java 2 Platform version 1.4 or later from one of the following sources:
• Sun: http://java.sun.com/j2se/
• IBM (recommended for Linux): http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/lxdk/lxdk-p
• For Mac OSX (Jaguar or later): Java 2 comes pre-installed or may be installed using software update

Downloading jOAI

Download the software from the jOAI download page at DLESE.

Installing jOAI

See the installation instructions for information about installing jOAI.

Configuring jOAI

See Configuring jOAI for information about optional configuration options jOAI.

Version and licensing

See About jOAI for version and licensing information.

Where to get help

See Provider documentation and Harvester documentation. For questions about downloading, installing or using the software, please contact support@dlese.org.