On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:37 AM, <marco.we...@kesslernetworks.de> wrote: > is it possible to perform an get request on the OAI interface and > using not the handle as identifier? > Can i use a field from the metadata scheme like dc.contributor.author?
I'm reading the Unique Identifier chapter of the OAI-PMH specification and it I don't think it explicitly says that there couldn't be multiple unique identifiers pointing to the same record. But they do have to be unique, so dc.contributor.author is out of the question. The OAI in DSpace probably could be adapted to allow multiple identifier schemas is you really wanted to, but I don't think it's a good idea at all. OTOH, if you don't need to conform to OAI-PMH, you just need a search interface, you can just search for any metadata via Solr [1], which uses really a simple, XML-based protocol (among other options). Of course, that way by searching for a value of a metadata field (like author) you can find the handles and still use OAI-PMH to access those handles, if you wish. Yet another alternative is SRU/SRW, but I don't recommend it at this time because it's implemented as an addon (i.e. not part of standard DSpace) and it's SQL-, not Solr-based (i.e. relatively slow). [1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Solr Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
