What is the OAI Base URLWhat is the OAI Base URL

What

If you are looking into harvesting data and using OAI for this, you might wonder what your base URL for OAI is.
The base URL of OAI is your Pure URL followed by /ws/oai. I.e. https://customer.server.url/ws/oai

If you try that link in a browser to test the service, you will get an error:
"Value of the verb argument is not a legal OAI-PMH verb, the verb argument is missing or the verb argument is repeated."
This is because no parameter/commands are given to the OAI interface.

To test in the browser you can use https://customer.server.url/ws/oai?verb=Identify or https://customer.server.url/ws/oai?verb=ListSets and then the service will return a XML reply.

Follow this link for details about the valid verbs with the OAI interface.

More information

KB-376 What is OAI
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