diff --git a/add-repox-sets.xq b/add-repox-sets.xq
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+declare namespace oai = "http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/";
+
+
+for $set in fn:doc('http://dpla.lib.utk.edu/repox/OAIHandler?verb=ListSets')/oai:OAI-PMH/oai:ListSets/oai:set
+let $spec := $set/oai:setSpec/text()
+let $name := $set/oai:setName/text()
+return(
+  db:add('repox-sets', <set><spec>{$spec}</spec><name>{$name}</name></set>, $name)
+)
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diff --git a/add-sets-to-db.xq b/add-sets-to-db.xq
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+(: preface this with a COMMAND: `set addcache true; create db OAI` :)
+(: grab oai-pmh from repox :)
+declare namespace oai = "http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/";
+
+(: Retrieves metadata records for an entire OAI-PMH collection :)
+(: Adds records to BaseX database:)
+
+declare function local:request($base-url as xs:string, $verb as xs:string, $set-spec as xs:string) as document-node()*
+{
+    let $request := $base-url || $verb || $set-spec
+    let $response := fn:doc($request)
+    let $token := $response//oai:resumptionToken/text()
+    return
+        if (fn:empty($token)) then
+            $response
+        else
+            ($response,
+            local:resume($base-url, $token))
+};
+
+declare function local:resume($base-url as xs:string, $token as xs:string) as document-node()*
+{
+    let $verb := "?verb=ListRecords&amp;resumptionToken="
+    let $request := $base-url || $verb || $token
+    let $response := fn:doc($request)
+    let $new-token := $response//oai:resumptionToken/text()
+    return
+        if (fn:empty($new-token)) then
+            $response
+        else
+            ($response,
+            local:resume($base-url, $new-token))
+};
+
+for $set in db:open('repox-sets')/set/spec/text()
+let $base-url := "http://dpla.lib.utk.edu/repox/OAIHandler" (: UTK's REPOX install :)
+let $verb := "?verb=ListRecords&amp;metadataPrefix=oai_dc"
+let $set-spec := "&amp;set=" || $set 
+let $response := local:request($base-url, $verb, $set-spec)
+for $record in $response//oai:record
+let $id := $record/oai:header/oai:identifier/text()
+return(
+  db:add(($set), $record, $id, map { 'addcache': true() } )
+)
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diff --git a/create-db-for-each-set.xq b/create-db-for-each-set.xq
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+(: this xquery script :)
+
+for $set in db:open('repox-sets')/set/spec/text()
+return
+  db:create(($set), (), (), map { 'textindex': true(), 'attrindex': true(), 'tokenindex': true(), 'ftindex': true() } )
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diff --git a/create-repox-sets-db.bxs b/create-repox-sets-db.bxs
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+<!-- create a 'repox-sets' database -->
+
+<commands>
+  <create-db name="repox-sets"/>
+</commands>
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