Tips and configurations courtesy of Ranju Upadhyay, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

The EPrints repository is quite similar to DSpace.

On the EPrints side, the data is already exposed for harvesting in oai_dc, so no additional configuration is required to obtain metadata. You can follow these steps to ingest EPrints data into VuFind®:

Create an oai.ini section similar to this example from National University of Ireland Maynooth:

[NUIMEprints]
url = http://oureprintshostname/cgi/oai2
metadataPrefix = oai_dc
idSearch[] = "/^oai:generic.eprints.org:/"
idReplace[] = "nuimeprn-"
;idSearch[] = "/\//"
;idReplace[] = "-"
injectId = "identifier"
;injectDate = "datestamp"

Because colons in identifiers can cause problems, it is helpful to remap the prefix to use “-” as the delimiter the my namespace and EPrints uuid, i.e. nuimeprn- and not nuimeprn:

You can copy the dspace.properities file to eprints.properties, and make adjustments similar to:

institution = "National University of Ireland Maynooth "
collection = "ePrints"

You can also copy dspace.xsl to eprints.xsl. Two small changes should cover the differences between DSpace and EPrints.

First, set the record type to eprints:

<!-- RECORDTYPE -->
<field name="recordtype">eprints</field>

Second, add support for URLs from the dc:relation field:

         <xsl:for-each select="dc:relation">
            <field name="url">
                   <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>
            </field>
         </xsl:for-each>

If you need to track record change dates (see Tracking Record Changes for details), you need to do a couple of extra things:

• Uncomment the injectDate line in the oai.ini file section above.
• Add these lines to eprints.properties:

change_tracking_core = "biblio"
change_tracking_date_tag_name = "datestamp"