Ancillary Resources
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DLXS Authentication and Authorization System
Describes the DLXS Authentication and Authorization System, a configurable part of DLXS middleware.
DLXS Simple Regression Testing System
The DLXS Simple Regression Testing System consists of script to drive the testing process and a collection of files representing the test case database.
DLXS Statistics System
The DLXS statistics system consists of two parts: (1) a tool to run on each web server to parse web log files, calculate hits, and insert those hits into the database, and (2) a web interface for retrieving reports such as HTML or MS Excel files.
DLXS IDRESOLVER
Describes the IDRESOLVER, a simple mechanism for resolving a unique ID to a URL.
DLXS Release Process
Documentation describing how DLPS generates a release of DLXS.
OAI Components
DLXS provides components for harvesting OAI records from data providers, OAI-enabling records from within or outside the DLXS system, and transforming and normalizing harvested OAI records into BibClass.
- For more information on OAI and the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), see the official site.
- For best practices related to OAI, see the Best Practices wiki.
- You can download a non-DLXS version of the harvester and provider at SourceForge. You can download the DLXS version of the harvester, provider and transformer at OAI Tools Package.
- DLXS hosts the OAIster project, as well as other OAI test portals (MODS, Aquifer, DLF).
OAI Harvester
This document details how to run the harvester (UMHarvester) used for harvesting OAI records from data providers.
OAI Provider
This document details how to use the OAI-PMH 2.0 provider Perl module (UMProvider) and the generic data loading script (LoadOai.pl), in order to make your metadata available to the world (become an OAI data provider).
OAI Transform
This document describes how to transform and normalize harvested records into BibClass. It also describes conditioning that takes place to transcode from Latin-1 to UTF-8, and to handle ISO Character Entity Reference Mapping, Numeric Character Reference Mapping, and miscellaneous character problems.
