On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:21:47AM -0400, Mark Diggory wrote: > PI resolvers come in all shapes and sizes, What all your talking > about implementing is proxy/resolution. I would highly recommend NOT > conflating the PI resolution mechanism (and why do we even have to > have one) with the url path with which a Community, Collection, Item > or Bitstream is referenced under in DSpace. What this means is that > you do not have a url on with you have to worry about the identifier > being properly escaped. You also only have to be concerned with > resolving one path to the Item for "any" PI system. > I.E. > > hdl:1234/5 --> http://dspace.me.ac.uk/item/ABCD > > and also > > doi:6789/0 --> http://dspace.me.ac.uk/item/ABCD
OK, this is fine, but we'll need to define the form that we want for the URL. If we don't use the canonical form of persistent identifiers for this, then we'll need to use another identifier that is unique across the site (presumably, something based on the database id of the object). Using UUIDs (as suggested earlier) would *work*, but would produce horrid URLs. cheers, Jim -- James Rutherford | Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Research Engineer | Cain Road, HP Labs | Bracknell, Bristol, UK | Berks +44 117 312 7066 | RG12 1HN. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Registered No: 690597 England The contents of this message and any attachments to it are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, you should delete it from your system immediately and advise the sender. To any recipient of this message within HP, unless otherwise stated you should consider this message and attachments as "HP CONFIDENTIAL". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
