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Oai Pmh Harvest

Example requests demonstrating OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs for harvesting PANGAEA dataset metadata in various formats.

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Oai Pmh Harvest is an example object payload from PANGAEA, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

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Example Payload

{
  "title": "OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Examples",
  "description": "Example requests demonstrating OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs for harvesting PANGAEA dataset metadata in various formats.",
  "baseURL": "https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider",
  "examples": [
    {
      "title": "Identify Repository",
      "description": "Retrieve information about the PANGAEA repository.",
      "verb": "Identify",
      "url": "https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=Identify",
      "curlExample": "curl 'https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=Identify'"
    },
    {
      "title": "List Available Metadata Formats",
      "description": "Retrieve all metadata formats supported by the PANGAEA OAI-PMH endpoint.",
      "verb": "ListMetadataFormats",
      "url": "https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=ListMetadataFormats",
      "curlExample": "curl 'https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=ListMetadataFormats'"
    },
    {
      "title": "List Dataset Sets",
      "description": "Retrieve all OAI sets (topic categories) available for selective harvesting.",
      "verb": "ListSets",
      "url": "https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=ListSets",
      "curlExample": "curl 'https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=ListSets'"
    },
    {
      "title": "Harvest Records in Dublin Core Format",
      "description": "Retrieve all records modified since 2024-01-01 in Dublin Core XML format.",
      "verb": "ListRecords",
      "parameters": {
        "verb": "ListRecords",
        "metadataPrefix": "oai_dc",
        "from": "2024-01-01"
      },
      "url": "https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2024-01-01",
      "curlExample": "curl 'https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2024-01-01'"
    },
    {
      "title": "Get Single Record in JSON-LD Format",
      "description": "Retrieve a specific PANGAEA dataset record in JSON-LD / Schema.org format.",
      "verb": "GetRecord",
      "parameters": {
        "verb": "GetRecord",
        "identifier": "oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.833575",
        "metadataPrefix": "json-ld"
      },
      "url": "https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.833575&metadataPrefix=json-ld",
      "curlExample": "curl 'https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.833575&metadataPrefix=json-ld'"
    },
    {
      "title": "Harvest Ocean Atmosphere Topic Records",
      "description": "Retrieve records from the topicOceanAtmosphere set in DataCite 4 format.",
      "verb": "ListRecords",
      "parameters": {
        "verb": "ListRecords",
        "metadataPrefix": "datacite4",
        "set": "topicOceanAtmosphere"
      },
      "url": "https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=datacite4&set=topicOceanAtmosphere",
      "curlExample": "curl 'https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=datacite4&set=topicOceanAtmosphere'"
    }
  ]
}

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