DAIA Perl package
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This module provides classes and functions for the Document Availability
Information API (DAIA) as specified at L<http://purl.org/NET/DAIA>.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

This will also install the converter/validator script found in clients/daia.pl
The script can be used as command line client (just invoke 'daia') and as web
application and web service. 

To install it the script on you webserver copy the file htaccess.example to
.htaccess in the same directory and adopt it to the settings of your webserver.
You may also need to install a perl module for example mod_perl for apache2.

EXAMPLES

To run the CGI-Examples in the directory examples you also may need to create
a .htaccess. ust copy and adopt htaccess.example from the directory clients to
allow execution of perl scripts as CGI.

The example gvk.pl additionaly requires the Perl library PICA::Record.

DEPENDENCIES

See Makefile.PL for a list of dependencies.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2009 Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) and by Jakob

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
