In my opinion, the PKP harvester should not be considered as an option anymore. It is simply outdated with no development in last 6 years or so. It does not even have a proper search engine (still uses database queries for search!) which does not scale very well beyond few thousand records. Instead one should consider DSpace whose built-in OAI harvester is not only very capable but also handles full-text through OAI-ORE support. The harvested records gets indexed into the highly scalable Solr search engine of DSpace. DSpace is also well documented and has much better UI. Regards, Saiful Amin semanticconsulting.com Bangalore Best regards, Saiful Amin +91-9343826438 Skype: saiful.amin On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:36 PM Francis Jayakanth wrote:

Dear Professor, These days, most of the ETD repositories are being maintained using OAI-PMH compliant digital library software like Eprints.org or DSpace. OAI-PMH protocol (https://www.openarchives.org/pmh/) facilitates interoperability through metadata exchange. So, to create an union catalogue of ETDs, all that one needs to do is to set up a metadata harvesting service using software like Open Harvester Systems (https://pkp.sfu.ca/ohs/), identify the ETD repositories' OAI interface, and start harvesting the metadata from the repositories. First harvest will be a full harvest, and subsequent ones will be just incremental harvests.

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________________________________ From: LIS-Forum on behalf of Ashok Asundi Sent: 17 November 2018 20:40:46 To: Lis-forum Subject: [LIS-Forum] Union Catalogue of ETDs

Dear LIS Professionals, Pardon me for my ignorance really! I am unable to understand, how a Union Catalogue of ETDs is created. Please educate me as my thinking is not visualising such an information product. With regards,

Prof. A.Y.AsundiFormer Professor, DLISc, Bangalore University,Bangalore