Harvesting Metadata with MarcEdit Harvester

Last week, I got a chance to harvest some Dublin Core records from DSpace, which is our institutional repository. When the process have gone for 15 seconds, MarcEdit Harvester stopped. I wonder whether DSpace OAI-PMH setup is compilable with MarcEdit Harvester. As far as I know, except Oregon State University Library, I haven't heard that any institutions have successfully harvested metadata with MarcEdit.

It might need more customizations to comply with local needs. I hope I could hear more from other institutions which directly use MarcEdit to harvest metadata. Some commercial XML harvester software now are available. The function of editable configuration file makes the software very promising.

Harvesting Non-Marc Records with MarcEdit

I am still waiting for the information from NITLE. Recently, MarcEdit has updated some new functions, such as macro engine, which could be used to further improve compliance of Marc records customized for local purpose. As long as I get the message from them, I will post how we do the process.

But in the meantime, I would like to pray for victims in China Earthquake, especially those children and teenage directly affected.

Harvesting Non-MARC Records From Institutional Repository

This week, I spend more time on OAI-PMH. I try to figure out what is the best way to harvest the records which we have deposited on DSpace. It seems that some libraries have tried to use software XML Harvester to harvest non-MARC records. This commercial software mostly has been integrated into ILS, and facilitates to harvest and convert Non-MARC records to MARC records.

Free software MarcEdit can also harvest NON-MARC records, but at some point, it has some problems. I am still exploring to make it work at my library. Hopefully, I can post the process later.