Hi, please let me introduce myself first. My name is Pascal Becker, I'm working for Technische Universität Berlin. We do not use DSpace yet but we want to develop an institutional repository for research data an publications based on DSpace.
URNs are quite often used by German institutions. As library in Germany you have to submit some of the digital objects in your repository to the German National Library (DNB) for archiving. Every item archived by DNB gets a URN. If the delivering institution has a URN namespace they have to generate a URN before delivering the item to the DNB. If the institution does not have a URN namespace the DNB generates a URN. To migrate existing repositories in Germany to DSpace it would be very useful if DSpace could import existing URNs for old items as well generate new URNs for new items. I hope that answers some of your questions about the situation in Germany. If you want to know more about URNs in details there are some RFCs: RFC 1737 (Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names), RFC 2141 (URN Syntax), RFC 3044 (Using The ISSN as URN within an ISSN-URN Namespace), RFC 3187 (Using International Standard Book Numbers as Uniform Resource Names), RFC 3188 (Using National Bibliography Numbers as Uniform Resource Names). Kind regards Pascal Becker > -----Original Message----- > From: helix84 [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] [KE1019161] URN in DSpace > > Are you using JSPUI or XMLUI? > > Are you submitting new items using the submission process, using some > batch import or both? > > DSpace can't do it without some new code, but either we can add this or it > can be pre-generated outside of DSpace, depending on how you're > submitting new items to DSpace. > > Do you think this would be generally useful for more institutions, even if > only > within Germany? > > Thanks for the explanation, I actually can read German, though, so the link > would have been enough :) > > Regards, > ~~helix84 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite > for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
