•Options
–Turnkey system that already has OAI-PMH capabilities built-in, such as DSpace or contentDM, plus many others.
Can be limiting…
–Start with an OAI-PMH toolkit and customize it to fit your needs, OCLC’s OAICat (Java), various toolkits from UIUC (ASP) or Virginia Tech (perl), and many others…
–Build a data provider from scratch, not too difficult
for a proficient web
software developer
–Use a gateway service, such as an OAI Static Repository Gateway, Emory’s Metadata Migrator, UIUC’s FileMakerPro and Z39.50 gateways.