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Re: [Handle-info] Question about DSpace as a handle server
If your DSpace collection were static, it would be easy to set up a "normal" handle server, and create on it all the handles that the DSpace built-in version automatically creates. You could then change handles as needed to alias the new handles in the new DSpace server, while retaining other handles.
What you lose with that is the automatic handle creation that the built-in DSpace handle storage gives you. So if you add new resources to your old DSpace server, you'd need to add the handles manually.
If that's not good enough, it would be a not-too-big task for a Java programmer to create a custom handle storage module which wraps the DSpace storage module, passing handles to it but allowing to override. It might be worth asking in DSpace community forums if such a thing already exists, as it sounds very useful to me.
Best,
Robert
On 2013-10-11, at 17:35 , Doug Stanley <dstanley@matforge.org> wrote:
> We aren't currently using the handle.net handle server, but the one
> built into dspace, which as far as I know, isn't a normal handle server.
>
> But if we were to set up a separate handle.net handle server and use
> that instead, could we have it by default forward everything to the
> dspace one, but for certain handles, redirect them elsewhere?
>
> We couldn't just have our prefix move entirely to the other server, as
> we'd still need to use it for some of the items.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
> On 10/11/2013 09:19 AM, Robert R Tupelo-Schneck wrote:
>> One way to do this would be to have your current DSpace handle be aliases (using the HS_ALIAS handle value) to new DSpace handles.
>>
>> It might be better to have the new DSpace installation take over your handles completely. I'm not sure whether the usual way that DSpace servers interact with their handle servers makes that easy, though.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> On 2013-10-11, at 03:04 , Ian Stuart <Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/10/13 19:26, Doug Stanley wrote:
>>>> Hello List,
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to handle servers and dspace as well.
>>>>
>>>> So we have a handle prefix, and we're currently using dspace with it's
>>>> built in handle server.
>>>>
>>>> The question I was asked, and I'm looking for some input on, is if we
>>>> want to move items out of our dspace, and into some one else's, can we
>>>> set up some kind of handle redirect? So the handles for a given item
>>>> follow it, even if it moves to a different dspace install with a
>>>> different handle prefix?
>>>>
>>>> I hope my question makes sense.
>>>
>>> I does make sense... and the answer is that your handle server accepts the old DSpace handles, and redirects them to the new handles, which then redirect to the article
>>>
>>> Its a fundamental, built-in, concept in the Handle system..... or at least, I read it that way :)
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