Re: [Handle-info] Handle as PID :Was: Please help me understand the value of Handle

[Konstantin Rekk <konstantin.rekk@gbv.de>]

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:33 -0400, Larry Lannom wrote:
> 
> Resolving handles is the handle system's one big trick - give it a  
> handle and it returns typed attributes. This is hidden from even
> many  
> technical folks by the fact that most use is through web-to-handle  
> proxy servers that most easily deal with URLs, but the type/value  
> pairs can be anything, not just URLs. As I mentioned in a previous  
> post, this capability is not widely used at the moment, but is  
> readily available. 

Thank you for the info!

Is there any working demonstration for a use case including general
type/value pairs? May be using the proxy (or extending it) by providing
get-attributes within request
A theoretical example: providing urn and not url, something like
http://hdl.handle.net?type=urn -> gives a urn-redirect (if browser
supports it) - 
one thinkable application (don't know if that makes sense) of this could
be to store handles for resources which are provided by external
repositories and which
are using urns;
instead of urn one could also use ppn (production numbers) for the
library catalog entry, so handle system would provide a two directional
link between digital object and catalog entry ...

Yours, Konstantin

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