On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 15:25, Tracy Seneca <tracy.sen...@ucop.edu> wrote: > > One of the cases the UC3 folks talked over for EZID was the researcher who > may have access to post files to a server but who doesn’t have any > administrative access at all. So if I’ve got research data parked on a > server at one university and I move elsewhere, it may be straightforward for > me to move the files around, but I’m less likely to find an administrator > (particularly at the old institution) to do link rewriting or even let me > keep simple redirect files around. >
That's particularly true if the institution hosting the research data does not provide identifier redirection in their suite of research data hosting services. I suspect it's rare to find such a service. I see this as an opportunity for cultural heritage institutions. And I'd be a lot more confident about an IT department's ability to manage and maintain a URL redirection service built on vanilla Apache modules rather than, e.g., Handle software. Glad to hear this figured into EZID development. -Mike
