Folks,

Several years ago, it was noticed that 9 item records were sharing 2 handles 
each in our DSpace 1.8.2 installation.

Based on metadata information, it theory is that a pending submission was 
withdrawn, evaluated, then eventually resubmitted and approved.  Somehow, that 
final submission action caused a new handle to be created and the 
dc.identifier.uri field was overwritten with the second CNRI handle address.

In other words, a normal submission would look similar to this:

http://server_address/dspace/handle/1234567/12345
http://hdl.handle.net/1234567/12345
item_id: 555123

And these 9 looked more like this:

http://server_address/dspace/handle/1234567/12345
http://hdl.handle.net/1234567/12345
item_id: 555123

http://server_address/dspace/handle/1234567/12346
http://hdl.handle.net/1234567/12346
item_id: 555123

But note that when viewing the item, the handle.net address ONLY shows the 
second handle.net address.

Since the second instance was generated fairly rapidly after the first and the 
item made public only with the secondary handle address, an easy solution would 
be to delete the first submission instance as a whole.  They share the same 
item_id, however, so deleting one will result in deleting the other (while 
leaving some artifacts in various tables).  Also, deleting one handle reference 
from the handle table doesn't cause the handle.net address to properly be 
decommissioned by DSpace internals.  

After speaking with CNRI, looking at the handle server software, and reading 
technical documents on how handles are managed by DSpace, it appears that there 
isn't much in the way of management.

Ideally, I'd like to remove the first handle entry from the database and either 
modify the unpublished, first, handle.net address to resolve to the second 
generated URL for the item or simply delete that first handle.net outright 
manually.  My understanding is that the handle server binaries are not useful 
when DSpace is in control of handle creation/deletion.

Makes sense?  Thoughts? 

-Jeff
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