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<div><font color="#1F497D">Hi</font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">A further update on the harvesting issue</font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">Cheers</font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D">Mary</font></div>
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<b>From:</b> Bell, Patrick D. <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 17 July 2014 17:22<br>
<b>To:</b> Campbell, Evelyn; Mowat, Mary R.<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Henni, Paul H.<br>
<b>Subject:</b> MEDIN harvesting</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Hi Both</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Paul rang earlier and we got on to discussing the site survey harvesting issues to MEDIN.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">A summary…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Harvest failed last week. We still use OAI to send our records to MEDIN. Steve would prefer we use CSW as it is more stable.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">This FY, James Passmore has a task to update the BGS CSW server (based on geoNetwork). When that’s done we’ll be able to host multiple separate groups of records that can be harvested by different portals and so we can
move to CSW for MEDIN.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">At the moment though, OAI it is and it’s a bit flakey. If there’s an issue with one record, it fails to harvest all records.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">The latest site survey update had 4 new records. On Monday, I took these records out and got Steve to try a harvest. It worked. During this week, I’ve been adding the new records one at a time and waiting for a reharvest.
They have all now gone in and harvested fine.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">So why did the original harvest fail? No idea.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">I’ll speak to Steve about how we might get better notifications of harvest failures.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Thanks</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Patrick</font></div>
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