> > 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).
If you want to implement URNs in DSpace you can just imagine you are implementing Handles, persistent URLs, DOIs or any other kind of persistent identifier. At which point do you want to register a Handle: on submission of single items only or during import of many items as well? I would appreciate if DSpace could generate URNs during import as well as after submission of a single item. But in both cases it would be great if it is possible to manually overwrite the generate URN by existing ones. To implement URNs one thing is to be able to generate new URNs. The other task is to register generated URNs. The URN-namespace urn:nbn:de is handled by German National Library (DNB). An institution that gets a namespace under urn:nbn:de has to register new URNs at DNB. This can be done manually or automatically. For automatically registrations of URNs the DNB is Harvesting your OAI-Interface regularly. Your OAI-Interface has to support epicure as metadataformat. Information about that can be found at http://persistent-identifier.de/?link=210&lang=en. A schema for epicure as part of an OAI can be found here: http://www.persistent-identifier.de/xepicur/version1.0/xepicur.xsd As I mentioned before, I'm new to DSpace so I think I'm yet the wrong person to develop URN support for it. But if some developer wants to do it, I would be glad to help out with all necessary information and/or testing. Kind regards Pascal Becker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
