That is the problem alright. They will be different - two different platforms (Eprints and DSpace) are being used - never mind the variations in how individuals put the metadata in to them!
It seems that it will be impossible to avoid some level of manual effort to make this work...

Leslie Carr wrote:

[log in to unmask]" type="cite">I'm sure that the real gotcha is that they won't be exact duplicates. That would be too easy :-)

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On 23 Jun 2008, at 14:20, David Kane wrote:

Hi Rachel,

RSS is good.  In EPrints you can turn any search into an RSS feed.  It's easy then to have a PHP script or similar consume that feed, cache it, and display it in the web page.

Combining multiple feeds is a bit more of a problem.  This could be achieved by using feedburner or Yahoo pipes.  I am not sure if these de-dupe the feeds, but that is an enhancement that could be made to the PHP code that consumnes the feed and renders the HTML.

I say PHP because that is what I used.  You are welcome to use my code, if you like.

Best,

David.

2008/6/23 Rachel Hill <[log in to unmask]>:

Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out the best way to solve the following problem of duplicate papers:

A new research centre is affiliated with 2 universities. Some papers from the centre will be co-authored by both universities, some will be authored by just the one. Each university will have a copy of papers written by its authors in its institutional repository. Now the research centre will create a website containing a record of all its papers, and wants to pull all its papers from each IR and join them together into one publications list.
Does anyone have advice on the best (and easiest) means of doing this, while automatically removing duplicates (where papers have been co-authored)? What method to use: OAI-PMH? other?? Has anyone had experience with this before?

Any suggestions appreciated!

Many thanks,
Rachel Hill

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