Harvesting 

The openedition repository follows the version 2.0 of the OAI-PMH protocol available on the Open Archives Initiative website: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

Selective Harvesting 

The repository allows selective harvesting, by set and by date.

Selective harvesting by set

For retrieving the document metadata from the Publications de l’École française de Rome only, you will have to query the books:efr set: https://oai.openedition.org/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=books:efr
For retrieving metadata from all OpenEdition Journals documents, you will have to query the journals set: https://oai.openedition.org/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=journals

More info about available sets: Sets description

Selective harvesting by date

The repository allows harvesting by date, i.e. harvesting of records added or updated before or after a specified date

The parameters to use are from and until. Allowed date formats are dd-mm-yyyy and dd-mm-yyyyThh:mm:ssZ.

Example

https://oai.openedition.org/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2017-03-13T16:47:48Z will retrieve a list of records added or updated since the 13 march 2017 at 4.47 pm.

resumptionToken 

The repository uses the resumptionToken system. Therefore, it is not possible to retrieve all documents with a single ListRecords, ListIdentifiers or ListSets request.

For instance, for retrieving the metadata of all documents from the journal Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, you will use the query:

https://oai.openedition.org/?verb=ListRecords&set=journals:rccs&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

The repository will return a list of the first 10 documents + a resumptionToken element at the end of the response.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OAI-PMH xmlns="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd">
  <responseDate>2018-10-12T07:11:17Z</responseDate>
  <request verb="ListRecords" metadataPrefix="oai_dc" set="journals:rccs">https://oai.openedition.org/</request>
  <ListRecords xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
    <record>
      [...]
    </record>
    <record>
      [...]
    </record>
    [...]

    <resumptionToken completeListSize="830">metadataPrefix%3Doai_dc%26set%3Djournals%253Arccs%26until%3D2018-10-12T07%253A11%253A17Z%26cursor%3D10</resumptionToken>
  </ListRecords>
</OAI-PMH>

For retrieving the next 10 documents, you will pass the content of the resumptionToken element as an argument of a new URL request:

https://oai.openedition.org/?verb=ListRecords&resumptionToken=metadataPrefix%3Doai_dc%26set%3Djournals%253Arccs%26until%3D2018-10-12T07%253A11%253A17Z%26cursor%3D10

and so on.

The OAI-PMH documentation available at http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html gives a more detailed insight of the resumptionToken parameter.

Deleted Records 

The repository does not provide information about deleted records.

Harvesting

Selective Harvesting