OAIPMH

SciCat supports querying published metadata via the OAI-PMH protocol

Configuration options

The oaipmh configuration is set by the config files .

Default configuration

In the default configuration .env file , the oaipmh is set to call the backend service available at backend.localhost (either v4 , by default, or v3 if specified otherwise by setting BE_VERSION ).

For an explanation of how setting BE_VERSION changes the environment creation see here .

Enable additional features

Setting the BACKEND_HTTPS_URL env variables requires changing the backend URL used by the oaimph . This is managed here .

When setting OAIPMH_HTTPS_URL it is likely you also want to set the BACKEND_HTTPS_URL , to allow the communication between the two wherever the browser is accessed.

DEV configuration

Running the service in DEV mode is supported, but be aware that the upstream tests fail, so npm run test will fail in the scicatlive oaipmh container as well.