Net::OAI::Harvester ------------------- Net::OAI::Harvester is a Perl library for interacting with OAI-PMH repositories. OAI-PMH stands for Open Archives Intitiatve Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. More about OAI-PMH can be found at http://www.openarchives.org. INSTALLATION You *must* be connected to the Internet to run the test suite. perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES OAI-PMH is essentially XML over HTTP so rather than reinvent the wheel there are a few dependencies. LWP::UserAgent - for HTTP XML::SAX - for XML parsing URI - for url representation YAML - for object serialization You also probably should be using Perl 5.8.0 at least since many repositories contain UTF8 data. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This software is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself . Copyright (C) 2003 Ed Summers