The Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH) is growing rapidly as the standard web protocol for making metadata, primarily bibliographic information, available online for programmatic access and I’ve long meant to write something that would allow be to pull information down from remote repositories into my local bibliographic database automatically (it would save [...]

WSGI Middleware

In a previous tutorial we just wrote a basic ‘Hello World’ application in WSGI. At the end of you might, rightly, have been wondering what’s the point of WSGI — after all you could have written that ‘Hello World’ app using plain CGI (or anything else for that matter). In this tutorial [...]

I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) and its benefits over the last six months or so and I’ve been meaning to take a look — not least because of the potential to use wsgi middleware to make a nice front-controller for KForge.

A quick google [...]