OAI manual Introduction

The OAI console harvester is a standalone tool that you can easily install on any computer. It has been developed to enable:

• test the access to your OAI-PMH repository via which you want to forward your content to the Archives Portal Europe,
• harvest the whole content of your OAI-PMH repository in order to upload it to the Archives Portal Europe's Content Checker for testing purposes, because the automatic harvesting functionality of the Content Checker is limited to fetch the first ten records of any OAI-PMH dataset.

So the OAI console harvester tool helps you to test your Archives Portal Europe contribution, just like the Data Preparation Tool. In addition: you can use the OAI console harvester tool in combination with any other OAI-PMH repository, for example: Europeana uses it to harvest the EDM datasets from the Archives Portal Europe's OAI-PMH repository.