Dear All,

Reposting my query from last December. Would really appreciate for any 
comments on this.

Thanks in advance,
euler

On Monday, December 5, 2016 at 3:08:06 PM UTC+8, euler wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I am testing the harvesting of my new DSpace 6.0 installation. I wonder if 
> it's possible to prevent DSpace from creating a new dc.identifier.uri for 
> incoming harvested items? It seems the 
> setting oai.harvester.acceptedHandleServer = hdl.handle.net in oai.cfg 
> has no effect when using DIM Metadata Format. It says in oai.cfg that:
>
> # A harvest process will attempt to scan the metadata of the incoming items
> # (dc.identifier.uri field, to be exact) to see if it looks like a handle.
> # If so, it matches the pattern against the values of this parameter.
> # If there is a match the new item is assigned the handle from the 
> metadata value
> # instead of minting a new one. Default value: hdl.handle.net
> oai.harvester.acceptedHandleServer = hdl.handle.net
>
> I tried several repositories to test this, including the Demo server of 
> DSpace but it is just minting a new dc.identifier.uri for incoming items. 
> If I use Simple Dublin Core or QDC as the Metadata format, it will save the 
> original handle of the item in dc.identifier but it is still creating new 
> dc.identifier.uri for incoming items. Is this the expected behaviour? Or is 
> this a bug? I just want to assign the original handle of the item in 
> dc.identifier.uri.
>
> Lastly, if the source repository did not register with CNRI's handle 
> service, what will I put in the oai.harvester.acceptedHandleServer? Can I 
> just use the source repository's url? eg repository.university.edu 
> instead of hdl.handle.net?
>
> Thanks in advance and best regards,
> euler
>

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