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Ed Summers describes Net:: OAI:: Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net:: OAI:: Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.

Net:: OAI:: Harvester is a Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. The article provides examples of how to use Net:: OAI:: Harvester to write short programs that execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs. Issues related to efficient XML parsing of OAI-PMH responses are discussed, as are specific techniques used by Net:: OAI:: Harvester.