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Since the normal installation of the oaicat demo at http://alcme.oclc.org/oaicat/ transforms raw oai mhp xml output to nice html you cannot really see the xml quickly. Unless you install your own version and modify oaicat.properties, of course. 

That's why I attach the response to Identity and ListRecord here as xml. It should make it easier to get to this xml when I am not on the one or two machines where I have oaicat running.

This is my list of OAI tools. In the beginning I will only post links, but as I go and learn about more about them, I will describe them a bit more:

Java

• OAICat Open Source Software OCLC
  <http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/cat.htm>
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/proai/. Last update: 2009-05-04. Seems to be used by Fedora commons: http://www.fedora-commons.org/download/2.1.1/userdocs/services/oaiprovid...

PHP4

I tried to install tomcat on my laptop and it doesn't work. I don't know why. On the pc at work it worked after a few minutes. Now, I gave up and tried to install oaicat on my ubuntu linux today.

I use the ubuntu package for tomcat. The start script works nicely, but it does not really comply with the warning from the oaicat page:

This is the second part of my blog on exporting MuseumPlus (M+) to xml. I write this part for Frank. In this part, I describe how you get simple XML out of the RTF which produced in the first part. I had written perl, batch and xslt years ago and I was really curious if it still works, -- and yes it does! The outcome of this step is nice xml in a structure which obviously mimicks the "internal" structure of the database.

Why and what for?

This is a description how to get XML data out of MuseumPlus (M+). I write this for Rainer and his current project. The idea is to see how this export can be optimized, and how much can be done by others.  Originally, I have written this export for ethnoArc. This page describes the first part of the process which could easily be done by someone else.

Technical overview and justification

My Tomcat problem (diagnosis)

I start tomcat. It works, serves static and dynamic pages for a few minutes and then seems to freeze. Every dynamic request times out.

java.exe in task manager shows 46432 K memory usage and doesn't change (with 19 threads).

Attempts

I still have this problem, after I put -Xms228M -Xmx512M in %JAVA_OPTS  on my laptop and if I start tomcat from windows shell in the tomcat directory.

Looking for Log files

I am trying to learn OAI for the MIMO project.  I am currently looking at Jeff Young's oaicat. The problem with is that I only had a vague or no idea at all about the OAI metadata harvesting protocol, Java servlets and Tomcat, Ant etc. when I started to look at it.

Tomcat

I found this on the XSL mailling list: http://assets.expectnation.com/15/event/2/Testing%20XSLT%20Presentation.pdf

The document as such is great, but now I wonder which approach is the best for me respectively is the eaisest to learn.

At the moment, I look at I http://utf-x.sourceforge.net/manual/manual.pdf, but I am really not sure this is the way to go. One question seems to be with or without Java.

Hi everyone!

I decided that this weekend I will take some time to restructure my site. It's the first site I made with Drupal and it looks terrible in everyway. This weekend I change it a little bit, so don't wonder why something might not work.

Maurice

I have too many drupal sites now and updating modules etc (i.e. standard tasks) start to get annoying. I wonder if there are already tools to control drupal remotely and if I should write some small scripts using WWW::Mechanize or something else.

Also, I wonder if I should write web tests for the drupal sites I am developing.

This is just an idea. Here are some links I find helpful: