Hi All
I need to create persistent links to bitstreams in DSpace for a specific project (I know this flies in the face of conventional wisdom). Is there any way this is possible using the handle system.
For example, I know that:
http://DOMAIN_NAME/bitstream/ITEM_ID/SEQUENCE_ID/FILENAME
works. Is there an equivalent URI using handles? Can I arrange this for a particular prefix with CNRI?
I notice that I can send a URI of the form:
http://hdl.handle.net/ITEM_ID?sequenceID=SEQUENCE_ID&bitstreamName=FILENAME
without error. If CNRI forwarded on the attributes from this sort of URI (it doesn't look like they do) then I could do some redirection in Apache.
Has anyone come across this problem? Any fixes or (I should say) workarounds out there?
Thanks a lot.
Gary Browne
Development Programmer
University of Sydney Library