Hello everyone, one new feature of DSpace 3.0 was the identifier Service. To add support for a new Identifier it is necessary to write a IdentifierProvider. A IdentifierProvider has to provide some methods, amongst others the methods reserve, register and mint. I'm not sure about the exact functions they should provide, but I hope someone here can help me?
As far as I understood to register an identifier means to assign it to an object and to make sure that the object can be found by using this identifier. To reserve an identifier means to make a reservation of this identifier and to prepare the identifier for later registration. To mint an identifier means to generate a new identifier dedicated to an object (so to generate a string, that may identify one special object). Minting an identifier does not mean to reserve or register it. So minting is only the process to generate an identifier that can be reserved an registered later. Is this correct so far? DataCite is a registration agency for DOIs. They do not only provide the DOIs, they want to get metadata about the objects that gets a DOI. So DataCite API reserves a DOI when it gets the metadata and it won't register a DOI that was not reserved before. The DOI gets registered by sending the URL it should point to. May I expect that a DOI that gets registered had been reserved before by using IdentifierProvider.reserve(...) or do I have to check it myself? The last question is about saving the identifiers as metadata of an DSpace Item. The javadoc says something about applying an identifier to an object and about setting an object's identifier. Does this mean to save the identifier as metadata? At which point should I add the identifier to the metadata of an DSpace Item? Whe the Identifier gets minted, reserved or registered? Is there any possibility to add an identifier as metadata to a DSpaceObject that is not an Item? Kind Regards, Pascal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
