Integrating Harvested Collections

Your library must have Encore Harvester enabled to use this functionality. Contact Innovative for more information about Encore Harvester.

Encore Harvester enables libraries to integrate Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant metadata from all of a library's specialized databases into Encore. Any OAI-PMH data provider can be harvested, including CONTENTdm®, Digital Commons™, Tamino™, Fedora™, DSpace™, Bepress Legal Repository, and Innovative's Content Pro and Content Pro IRX digital library solutions. You can then choose to search for traditional catalog results, limit the results to article citations, or limit to harvested data only.

Harvesting Frequently Asked Questions

All unqualified Dublin Core elements can be harvested. The default list of harvested fields is:

  • title
  • creator
  • subject
  • description
  • publisher
  • contributor
  • date
  • type
  • format
  • identifier
  • source
  • language
  • relation
  • coverage
  • rights

Encore includes the title, author (creator), subject, and date elements in its facets.

Yes.

All unqualified Dublin Core elements can be indexed.

See the solution titled "How and where does data harvested from repositories display in Encore?" in the Customer Supportal.

  • Content Pro
  • Content Pro IRX
  • ContentDM
  • Bepress Legal Repository
  • Drupal
  • Fedora
  • LUNA Commons
  • Vital

Version 2.

Yes, Encore can harvest both HTTP and HTTPS repositories. Note that you must have Java 8 or earlier to harvest HTTPS repositories.

If you use Sierra Scheduler to initiate a harvesting job, the Sierra Scheduler Job History page reports:

  • job name
  • start time
  • finish time
  • current status
  • exit status

See Sierra Scheduler Job History in the Sierra WebHelp for more information.

No. Only Dublin Core is supported at this time for Encore Harvester.

Contact Innovative to enable Encore Harvester. After this is complete, you can use the Sierra Administration application to set up repository harvesting and run Encore Harvester. See Administering Encore Harvester in the Sierra WebHelp for more information.

You can selectively harvest metadata from a repository using "sets," if the repository’s data provider is configured to allow this.