OAI-PMH service
About OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH stands for Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It is a protocol for collecting and synchronising the metadata of a repository to display it in another platform.
Reference: openarchives.org/pmh/
Service access
| Type of request | URL |
|---|---|
| Start page | sonar.ch/oai2d? |
| List of metadata formats | sonar.ch/oai2d?verb=ListMetadataFormats |
| List of sets | sonar.ch/oai2d?verb=ListSets |
| List of records | sonar.ch/oai2d?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc |
Metadata format
Currently, only the format oai_dc is implemented, according to the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories v3.
Specificity of this format: the field dc:identifier contains the record permalink and also, if applicable, the direct link to the file.
Example
<dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/global/documents/304993</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/documents/304993/files/B._Leutenegger.pdf</dc:identifier>