- Login to the local (current) system using an administrative account.
- Obtain information from remote system administrator for the remote search system configuration: ip-address/url
- Navigate to the
Add New Data Provider page:
- On the top navigation bar, click the drop-down-menu (whose title is the user’s username) > Administration menu-item > Data Providers link, which leads to the
Data Providers page.
- Click
Add button to open the Add New Data Provider input form.
- Enter information for the following fields in the form:
- Enter
provider URL – enter remote system (data provider) ip-address/URL, i.e., http://127.0.0.1/oai_pmh/server/
Harvest Rate (seconds) – (default = 60)- Enable
automatic harvesting – (default = checked = True)
- Click the
Add data provider button at the bottom of the page, which updates the OAI-PMH data providers list.
- Check all of the registered data providers to ensure they are able to provide data by clicking the
Check All button.
- Update all of the registered data providers to ensure they are configured and ready to support OAI-PMH-based searches by clicking on the
Update All button.
- Manually force harvesting (local data copying) from all registered data providers by clicking the
Harvest All button.
NOTES:
- The local (current) system is now configured.
- If both the remote and local systems are configured, then the users of the local (current) system may now perform OAI-PMH-based searches on this set of registered data providers.
- Over time, an administrator may register many such remote systems for carrying out searches initiated by the local (current) system’s users.
- Thus, when users initiate searches from this local system, they can be distributed across all such remote search systems (and, likewise, across all of their, respective, remote search systems as well).