Hi, I have been involved in testing DSpace to harvest a collection not hosted in DSpace, but which is OAI compliant. We have been successful in doing the harvesting, but not successful in having the DSpace record point to the correct external record.
The issue is that DSpace assigns a URL of the form http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/xxxxx to dc.identifier.uri although dc.identifier appears correctly, e.g. http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/northern/image.php?ID=10857 (the main problem is that the correct identifier is not hyperlinked, and doesn’t appear in the simple view) As you can see, we are running a test implementation of DSpace and have not implemented the handle server, hence the “123456789” prefix. But I’m not sure that’s the only issue. What I’m wondering is: - Is there a way, by populating appropriate fields on the repository side or by configuring DSpace, or otherwise, to have the correct identifier (URL) show up in dc.identifier.uri, especially for the purpose of the test implementation? - Will implementing the handle server actually solve the problem? It’s not clear to be how this will work, since wouldn’t we need to register a prefix (or at least set up a mapping) for each external collection? As may be obvious, I'm not too familiar with how handles work. As additional background, I did also test with a repository using the OAI identifier format, i.e. oai:domain:id. The element dc.identifier resolves correctly, but dc.identifier.uri still uses the non-functional handle. On the other hand, harvesting from a DSpace collection works properly, with dc.identifier.uri being populated with the handle assigned by the other DSpace instance. In case it makes a difference, we are running DSpace version 1.6.0. Thanks for any guidance on this. Tim -- Tim Hutchinson University of Saskatchewan Archives 301 Main Library, 3 Campus Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A4 tel: (306) 966-6028 fax: (306) 966-6040 e-mail: [email protected] web: http://www.usask.ca/archives/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
