How to Test Your OAI Provider
•Repository Explorer http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/
–Good start, but does not do a complete harvest, nor does it check non-oai_dc metadata formats, so can’t find all problems
•W3C Validator for XML Schema http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv
–Great for pinpointing obscure XML Schema validation errors or character encoding problems
–Only one request at a time though
•Character Encoding Problems
–http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/simeon/software/utf8conditioner/
•Try to harvest your OAI provider yourself
–Use REAP, the Windows command line OAI harvester from UIUC
–http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/dlffall2005/reap_readme.htm
–Use the U. Michigan Harvester (Kat can provide more detail)
•Ask one of us to do it J