Tutorials

  • Consuming Agrifeeds with Drupal Feeds

    The Drupal Feeds module is a robust mechanism for consuming structured data from a variety of remote sources and importing or aggregating that content into local "nodes".  This tutorial describes how to install and configure the Feeds module, and configure a parser which uses xpath to transform Agrifeeds Events into local content.

     

  • OAI Harvesting

    The Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has been widely adopted as an approach to allow harvesting of metadata.  Many of the CIARD RING services are using institutional or thematic repositories that expose metadata using an OAI provider .  This tutorial provides a brief overview of the requests that can be made, a description of the response, and some example code which demonstrates of an OAI Harvester.