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    Problem with Hathi pipe

    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Primo
    • Product Version: 4

    Problem Symptoms:

    - OAI request failed:

    http://your_host_name.edu/cgi/o/oai/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=marc21&set=hathitrust:pdus ?verb=Identify
    

    - Error executing harvesting_process from pipe work log:
    Error code: cannotDisseminateFormat. Message:  The metadata format identified by the value given for the metadataPrefix argument is not supported by the item or by the repository. 

    Cause:

    Wrong pipe configurations

    Resolution:

    1. Test the following URLs for a valid set name, in this example pdus

    
    http://your_host_name.edu/cgi/o/oai/oai?verb=Identify
    http://your_host_name.edu/cgi/o/oai/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=marc21&set=hathitrust:pdus
    


    2. If results are returned, confirming valid set names, then set the pipe configurations values:
    Data source: Hathi Trust
    Harvesting method: OAI
    Server:

    http://your_host_name.edu/cgi/o/oai/oai
    

    Metadata format: marc21 *(MUST be lowercase)
    Set: hathitrust:pdus
    Normalization mapping set: Hathi Trust
    Enrichment set: No enrichments
    Harvested File Format: *.tar.gz
    System last stage: FRBR

    3. Save and run the pipe


    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013