.. _oaipmh: OAI-PMH Support =============== pycsw supports the `The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting`_ (OAI-PMH) standard. OAI-PMH OpenSearch support is enabled by default. HTTP requests must be specified with ``mode=oaipmh`` in the base URL for OAI-PMH requests, e.g.: .. code-block:: bash http://localhost/pycsw/csw.py?mode=oaipmh&verb=Identify See http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html for more information on OAI-PMH as well as request / reponse examples. .. _`The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting`: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html