If my records reside in a database, can I use jOAI to implement an OAI data provider for my repository?
The jOAI data provider allows XML files from a file system to be exposed as items in an OAI data repository. To expose records that reside in a database, write a routine to export the records to XML files at regular intervals such as once a day or once a week, depending on how often the records change. Then setup the data provider to monitor the directory or directories where the files are exported to. See also preparing files for serving. After the initial set of records have been exported from the database, files should be modified or deleted only when the corresponding database record has been updated or deleted. jOAI will monitor the files and provide them to harvesters according to the OAI-PMH.
