[OAI-implementers] How many records should typically be returned over OAI-PMH?

[Baden Hughes]

OAI-PMH has a flow control mechanism [1], which, if followed, allows the 
use of a resumptionToken for handling larger data sets. This is widely 
implemented in OAI tools.

[1] http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm#FlowControl

Baden

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Dan Stowell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm implementing OAI-PMH and at first I decided that my system could easily 
> return 2000 records in a single OAI-PMH request. Unfortunately the "OAI 
> Repository Explorer" doesn't seem to be able to cope with that much data 
> since it ended up having timeout and too-much-data errors.
>
> I've now reduced that number to 500 and my repository now validates happily. 
> But is there a rule of thumb for how many records it's "polite" to return, or 
> how many a typical OAI-PMH harvester "expects" to have to deal with?
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
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