Open Harvester Systems

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Open Harvester Systems
Original author(s) Chia-ning Chiang, Patrick Inglis, Kevin Jamieson, Henry Kang,
Daniel McLaren, Faith Shields, Robert Wickert, John Willinsky,
and Eunice Yung
Developer(s) Public Knowledge Project
Initial release June 9, 2003 (2003-06-09) (1.0)[1]
Stable release

2.3.2  (March 16, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-03-16))

[±]
Preview release None [±]
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in Multi-lingual
Type Content management system
Data management software
License(s) GNU General Public License v2.0
Website pkp.sfu.ca/?q=harvester

Open Harvester Systems or OHS is free open-source metadata indexing software for "Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-compliant archives, such as sites using Open Journal Systems (OJS) or Open Conference Systems (OCS)."[2] The software is developed and released under the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), which "is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research."[3]

Product history

Open Harvester Systems (OHS) (originally called "Open Archives Harvester," and later in 2005 "Harvester2"[4]) was first developed in 2003 by Chia-ning Chiang, Patrick Inglis, Kevin Jamieson, Henry Kang, Daniel McLaren, Faith Shields, Robert Wickert, John Willinsky, and Eunice Yung, along with other support staff through the assistance of The Public Knowledge Project (PKP), a non-profit research initiative of the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia and other supporting entities.[1] The PKP also agreed to freely distribute OCS "[a]s part of its mandate to expand access to research."[1] Version 1.0 of the software was first released on June 9, 2003[1], and development continues on it to this day, with the most current release arriving in March 2012.

Features

The main features of Open Harvester Systems include[2]:

  • ability to harvest OAI metadata in a variety of schemas
  • extensible
  • advanced query tools
  • granular harvesting
  • filtering and normalization of metadata
  • customizable interface

Hardware/software requirements

Installation requirements for Open Harvester Systems include:

  • PHP 4.2.x or greater (Microsoft IIS requires PHP 5.x)
  • MySQL 3.23.23 or greater or PostgreSQL 7.1 or greater
  • Apache server 1.3.2x or greater, 2.0.4x or greater (or Microsoft IIS 6; untested)

For more information, consult the download page.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

  • Screenshots of Open Harvester Systems can be found on the Softpedia.
  • A demo of Open Harvester Systems is available via here, though it was currently offline as of January 2013.
  • Documentation for Open Harvester Systems can be found on the PKP site or in the FAQ.

Entities using Open Harvester Systems

Further reading

External links

References