We looked into using a single naming authority for items in DSpace and not in DSpace, and it's problematic because DSpace essentially has naming authority for submitted items. It would be difficult to predict its naming and work around it.
So we have a main naming authority and a DSpace sub-naming authority off that. It's no big deal. If you were really really tied to having one, you could in theory create handles that were pointers into DSpace either using the DSpace handle resolution mechanism, or not. Note that you would have to customize the link generation in DSpace where it provides a bookmarkable URL to the user. I'm not sure how you would tell DSpace what the externally-created identifier is, though. It sounds messy. In my estimation, it's much easier to accept the fact that DSpace is a relatively self-contained system that creates and resolves its own identifiers. Cory Snavely University of Michigan Library IT Core Services On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:05 -0600, Krishna wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I need some suggestions. We are trying to integrate DSpace to a system > which already uses handle system. If we want to use DSpace to store > the data which also uses internal handle system, how do we do it. we > would like to use only the handles which we already have and not the > handles that DSpace uses . Is there any place in DSpace(may be > metadata) to store the handle identifier generated by our system and > use these handles to retrieve the data from the DSpace repository. > Thanking you all' > > Krishna > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
