[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Question about OAI harvest of MARCXML records

[Andy Boze]

Thanks, Brian.

That was just a typo in my e-mail. To make sure, I repeated a harvest 
specifying "set=collection" and I still get a mix of identifiers with 
both resources and archival objects.

So, I'm still wondering whether there's a way to specify just resources 
for oai_marc. At this point, I'm assuming there isn't.

Andy

On 3/10/2023 6:07 PM, Brian Harrington wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> Try set=collection, with no “s”.  I think that’s your problem.
> 
> Brian
> 
> *From: *archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org 
> <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of 
> Andy Boze <Boze.1 at nd.edu>
> *Date: *Friday, March 10, 2023 at 2:45 PM
> *To: *Archivesspace Users Group 
> <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
> *Subject: *[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Question about OAI harvest of 
> MARCXML records
> 
> Hi, all.
> 
> Before I get to the question, let me give some background. We've been
> successfully harvesting EAD records from ASpace. We're currently running
> v2.8.1 and when we test the harvest on v3.3 we consistently get timeout
> problems where sometimes ASpace will simply stop responding or return
> some error. Some of our records are very large, but this happens when we
> request even relatively small records.
> 
> As a work-around, we wanted to try harvesting records in MARCXML format.
> It doesn't provide all of the data that are included in the EAD record,
> but it's good enough for our purposes.
> 
> The problem we have with harvesting records in MARCXML format is that
> ASpace returns not only resource records (which are the only records
> returned by EAD) but also records for archival objects, which we don't
> want. That is, we want records with an identifier of
> 
> <identifier>oai:und//repositories/2/resources/1301</identifier>
> 
> but not
> 
> <identifier>oai:und//repositories/2/archival_objects/673199</identifier>
> 
> When I add set=fonds to the OAI URL, I do get just resources (plus
> deleted records), which is pretty much what I would expect, but not all
> of our resources are fonds. When I add set=collections, I start getting
> archival objects as well as resources. And without specifying a set, I
> get a mix of resources and archival objects. (Our harvester also doesn't
> allow us to request specific records, just a set and a beginning/ending
> date.)
> 
> So, my question is: Is there a way to harvest MARCXML records only for
> resources?
> 
> I hope this makes sense. I've not an archivist, so I hope I'm stating
> things adequately.
> 
> Andy
> 
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