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Re: [Handle-info] Approaches to handle names

Title: Approaches to handle names
Clark,

In regard to having a handle generated with date/time this link http://drc-dev.ohiolink.edu/wiki/HandleGenerator discusses how a handle pid generator was configured in fedora.  It shows a RandomHandleGenerator configured within the link, but another option is TimeBasedHandleGenerator which creates the handle using date/time.

I'm not sure if you are using a fedora or dspace repository or have something else, but hopefully the information in the link I provided helps you out.

As for handle naming, yes what should one do.  We kicked it around and I think we arrived at a decision, but one never knows, should it be random, semantic, or maybe it should be hierarchical using your prefix:authority:sub authority:resource.  Maybe the best way to decide is get a bunch of folks in the room and take a vote, but I warn you that this may take some time.

Clark, Michael A. wrote:

We are in the embryonic stages of implementing handles for our organization, and are interested in the various approaches institutions have taken in deciding how exactly what the suffix is.  We realize there is a great deal of flexibility handles offers in this regard, but we are exploring the philosophies handles users and the relative merits and demerits of each approach.  We've exotic examples that describe the content, others that are essentially inventory numbers, another that indicates the bibliographic system record number.  There is large variety.

I think I recall someone writing into this discussion group and having -- either inadvertently or otherwise -- created a handle that was essentially the date/time group down to the millisecond created by the handles software, but have not been able to re-locate that posting.  Is this possible?

Thanks.

Michael A. Clark
Program Planning Specialist
Library Services and Content Management
U.S. Government Printing Office
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