Hi all, in DSpaceOAICatalogue the oai identifier is created with oai:[hostname]:[handle] where hostname is the dspace.hostname configured in dspace.cfg
An oai identifier consists of: scheme ":" namespace-identifier ":" local-identifier Looking at http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-oai-identifier.htm I wonder whether this is a good approach with regards to persistence: "Persistence: it is intended that oai-identifiers will be permanent. That is, oai-identifiers must remain globally unique and items should retain the same oai-identifier. (This is considerably weaker than RFC1737.)" Shouldn't we make the namespace-identifier a seperate configuration parameter? Hostnames are likely to change and the sideeffect on the oai identifier is not very apparent. Sunny greetings Claudia Jürgen -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Claudia Juergen Universitaetsbibliothek Dortmund Eldorado 0231/755-4043 https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
