OAIHarvester (version 0.3-1)

providers: OAI-PMH Providers

Description

Names, base URLs and identifiers of registered and validated OAI conforming metadata providers.

Usage

oaih_providers()

Value

A character data frame with variables name, baseurl and identifier providing the repository names, base URLs and OAI identifier (see http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-oai-identifier.htm).

Details

Information is extracted from http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites (as the XML formatted list of base URLs of registered data providers from http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/registry/ListFriends does not provide repository names), and cached for the current R session.