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Hi Fred, Our project OARINZ (Open access repositories in New Zealand) www.oarinz.ac.nz had the same needs as you. We ended up implementing PKP Harvester as the base tool and extended it with a SRU/W http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/srw/ plugin which enables Metadata searching through either a SOAP Webservice or a RESTful service e.g. http://harvester.oarinz.ac.nz/index.php/sru?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dc%3Atitle+%3D+%22test%22 All your site would have to do is be able to (serverside) send a HTTP or SOAP request and transform the results. We are currently developing a better plugin that enables mix and match schema indexes e.g. mods:titleInfo = "test" or dc:title = "test", And multiple schema output e.g. mods output on a dc query. Cheers Kris >>> Leslie Carr <[log in to unmask]> 23/05/2007 2:48 a.m. >>> You want to use the Google CSE interface. Have a look at www.macworld.com - the search is limited to a list of sites that is defined by the administrator. -- Les On 22 May 2007, at 12:38, Riley Fred wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this query to as > most of > the discussion on here seems to be about higher-level issues, so if > this > is too 'tech' please let me know where it should be posted. I'm trying > to find out if there are any tools in existence which a web developer > could use to put a OAI-PMH harvester on a site, so that the site users > could search specific repositories without leaving the safety and > comfort of the site. Basically a sort of 'meta-search' engine > interface > integrated seamlessly into a site. Plainly there are harvesters out > there, such as the marvellous OAIster, but the punters have to > travel to > those sites to use them. The tool I'm looking for would allow the > developer to specify particular repositories with OAI-PMH services, > and > allow the end-user to query them without having to go to the > repository > itself and thus have to familiarise themselves with a new interface. > > I've had a hunt around for this sort of thing lately and I don't think > it exists, but I figure that if such a thing does exist then folk on > here are most likely to know about it ;-). I've had a look on the OAI > tools list at http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/tools/tools.php but > although there are plenty of useful Perl, Java and PHP libraries which > developers can use to develop OAI search tools, there's nothing > 'ready-rolled' as far as I can see. TIA for any answers. > > Cheers > > Fred > > Fred Riley > Learning Technologist/Media Developer > School of Nursing > University of Nottingham > Queens Medical Centre > NG7 2HA > > Tel: +44 (0)115 82 30865 > Email: [log in to unmask] > URL: www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/staff/support-staff/fred_riley.php > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an > attachment > may still contain software viruses, which could damage your > computer system: > you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications > with the > University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK > legislation. Scanned by Bizo Email Filter