oai4courts setup

Executive summary:

Here's what you'll need to run oai4courts:

Implementation scenarios: where does the metadata come from?

OAI-PMH repository implementations consist of request- and error-handling scripts that draw on a relational database (RDBMS) for the metadata they deliver. In practice, this is because implementations that relied on real-time extraction of metadata from documents in a file tree would be unacceptably slow. So for practical purposes the question becomes one of how the metadata finds its way into the RDBMS, and that in turn depends on the nature of the documents themselves,

You will also want to look at the conceptual overview of Level 1 data.

Here's a schema diagram. It won't print well, sadly. There's a PDF version that might be more readable: OAI-lite.pdf