Hello Börje,
good question. There might be a little bit of semantic confusion about the
term "handle" in DSpace.
Here are the two notions:
- For every item in DSpace, a unique external identifier gets generated
(aside from the internal id). This id is called a handle. There is no way to
disable this, because DSpace needs a unique ID for every item.
- DSpace can be registered with the handle.net service, which takes care of
the persistent URI's. You will then be attributed a unique identifier for
your repository. Together with this unique repository ID, the item "handle"
will be enough for handle.net to create a unique, persistent URI. But it is
NOT obligatory to use or register with handle.net
For example, http://lirias.kuleuven.be is not registered with handle.net.
The URI's to items look like this:
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/174013
Clearly, 123456789 is the out of the box, default setting for the repository
identifier. But the unique identifier (handle) for one item, e.g. 174013 for
this item, will always be generated and necessary.
I hope this answers your question.
with kindest regards,
Bram Luyten
@mire - http://www.atmire.com
Technologielaan 9 - 3001 Heverlee - Belgium
533 2nd Street - Encinitas, CA 92024 - USA
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Börje Lewin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are interested in using DSpace for making publications searchable in
> a persistent way. I have seen that there is a "handle" component that is
> needed. But we will get URN:NBN identities from the Royal Library of
> Sweden and we already have our own sofisticated system for assigning and
> handling persistent URIs for all our objects (currently 3.4 million
> cultural heritage objects on the semantic web). With these two functions
> in place (URN:NBN, URI) and a mapping between them, is it possible to
> use DSpace without the handle component? Or is the handle component
> seriously integrated in the DSpace software?
>
> Best Regards
> Börje Lewin
> IT Architect
> Swedish National Heritage Board
>
>
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