On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Becker, Pascal-Nicolas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Great! Thanks for the exaplanation, this kind of context is always useful. > 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 think my last comment might be misunderstood to mean that URNs couldn't be put into item's metadata outside of the submission or import process. That is not true. It's perfectly possible to fill in the metadata of existing items at any time. What I meant was automated _generation_ of URN from other metadata (like institution namespace, ISBN etc.) would work only during submission in my proposal (and it was only a proposal, so it's not set in stone). Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
