Settings > OAI-PMH

The OAI-PMH section of the Settings app is where you configure the behavior of FOLIO’s OAI-PMH feed. Learn more about the OAI-PMH Specification at the Open Archives website.

FOLIO currently supports three metadata formats:

• marc21
• oai_dc
• marc21_withholdings

This list can be viewed by using the ListMetadataFormats verb.

Permissions

To interact with OAI-PMH settings, a user needs to be assigned the following permission:

• Settings (OAI-PMH): Display list of settings pages This permission allows the user to view all the OAI-PMH settings, but “Save” button is disabled. User can see the message “You lack necessary permissions to edit OAI-PMH settings. Please, contact the system administrator.”
• Settings (OAI-PMH): Can view and edit settings This permission allows the user to view and edit the OAI-PMH settings.

Settings > OAI-PMH > General

General settings to configure how the Identify verb responses.

Enable OAI service

Checkbox to globally enable or disable OAI services.

Repository name

Sets the content in the respositoryName XML element of the Identify response.

Base URL

Sets the content in the baseURL XML element of the Identify response. This value also appears in the content of the response XML element of the ListRecords verb.

Time granularity

Sets the content in the granularity XML element of the Identify response.

Administrator email(s)

Sets the content in the adminEmail XML element of the Identify response.

Settings > OAI-PMH > Technical

Max records per response

Number of records to return per page of response.

Enable validation

Defines if the response content should be validated against XSD schemas.

Formatted output

Determines if the marshalled XML data is line feeds and indentation.

Settings > OAI-PMH > Behavior

Deleted records support

One of:

• No - Indicates that no information about deleted records is presented.
• Persistent - Records with MARC Leader 05 equal to ’d', ’s' or ‘x’ will be listed as deleted in OAI-PMH ListRecords responses.
• Transient - Same behavior as Persistent, but without a guarantee that deleted records will be kept indefinitely in FOLIO.

See https://issues.folio.org/browse/MODOAIPMH-108 for more details of the implementation.

Setting value appears in deletedRecord XML element of Identify response.

Suppress records processing

One of:

• Transfer suppressed records with discovery flag value - Adds a MARC subfield $t = 1 to FOLIO’s 999 field (for Instances), 852 field (for Holdings) or 952 field (for Items).
• Skip suppressed from discovery records - Instances marked ‘Suppress from Discovery’ are to included in the OAI-PMH response.

OAI-PMH errors processing

One of:

• Associate with HTTP status 200 - Error messages are returned with an HTTP 200 response code.
• Associate with HTTP error statuses - Error messages are returned with an appropriate HTTP error code.

Settings > OAI-PMH > Sets

Creating a new set

1. Click New.

2. Enter a Set name (required).

3. Enter a Set description (optional, but recommended).

4. Set Filtering Conditions

5. Click Save. The fund type is saved and appears in the Fund types list.

Editing a set

1. Find the set you want to edit, click the Actions button, and select the Edit option.

2. Edit the set.

3. Click Save. The set is updated.

Duplicating a set

1. Find the set you want to duplicate, click the Actions button, and select the Duplicate option.

2. Edit the set.

3. Click Save. A new set is created.

Deleting a set

1. Find the set you want to delete. Click the Actions button, and select the Delete option.

2. In the Confirm deletion of set dialog, click Delete. A confirmation message appears and the set is deleted.