Mark, Thank you very much for explaining the limitations of current Handle server implementation in DSpace and for your wish to provide a fuller-featured implementation.
Best wishes, Anne On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 9:33:18 AM UTC-5 Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 08:15:27AM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > > The conversation, > > https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/mB0CnC6Hh8M/m/QUreQRDHAwAJ, > > <https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/mB0CnC6Hh8M/m/JYs33TYoAAAJ> > > indicates that DSpace doesn't actually contain a Handle server, just the > > Handle resolver plugin. However, DSpace 6.x Documentation - Installing > > DSpace - The Handle Server > > < > https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC6x/Installing+DSpace#InstallingDSpace-TheHandleServer,>, > > > > states that it is possible to install a separate Handle server and then > > install the Handle resolver plugin to it. > > > > If one does install a separate Handle server, is it then possible to use > > the Handle Tool (part of the CNRI software), PDF, page 14 > > <http://www.handle.net/tech_manual/HandleTool_Ver2.pdf>, to redirect > > Handles with this server? In our case we want to redirect Handles of > > deleted items, etc. I would anyone's experience with this Handle Tool. > > I don't have a direct answer but I can supply some background. > > DSpace provides the database for the instance of Handle server that it > uses. DSpace code includes a database back-end for the Handle server > which implements only the functions that are needed for the Handle > server to resolve Handles out of DSpace's 'handle' table. I haven't > looked at the code for a while, but I think it likely that any attempt > to modify the database through the Handle server would fail. DSpace > makes all Handle modifications directly in its own database and does > not use the Handle server at all. > > I haven't looked into what would be involved in upgrading the back-end > to full functionality for the Handle server, or whether DSpace would > need modifications to cope with the possibility that something else is > modifying the Handle table. > > There is a remote-Handle-server plugin that lets the Handle server > query DSpace rather than go directly to the shared DBMS. I think it > is for a special situation in which direct access to the DBMS host > from the Handle server host was forbidden by local policy. I don't > think this will be any more (or less) useful in your case than the > other way. > > For some time now I have wished to find time to reverse this situation > and (optionally?) make DSpace call out to a 100% stock Handle server > for all Handle creation, resolution, update and delete operations, as > the other IdentifierProvider implementations do. That would free us > from these peculiarities of the current custom back-end. > > -- > Mark H. Wood > Lead Technology Analyst > > University Library > Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis > 755 W. Michigan Street > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > 317-274-0749 <(317)%20274-0749> > www.ulib.iupui.edu > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/f6dcab27-ec2e-4d63-bb3c-260b1a6a19ffn%40googlegroups.com.
