Thanks Mark. I just had another idea as well. We already have this community under a separate, unique, XMLUI theme. Could we alter that theme to include a redirect META tag, that redirects to the new location, or to a service that finds the appropriate URL? I don't know if XMLUI themes can do things like that.
- Jim ________________________________________ From: Mark H. Wood [mw...@iupui.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:37 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] moving a subset of Handles out of DSpace On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 05:01:54PM +0000, Halliday, James Leonard wrote: > We have a DSpace instance which has one community that has moved elsewhere > (to OJS). So there are 4000+ items that are no longer valid and should be > removed, withdrawn, or deleted. I would like to have the handles for those > 4000 articles redirect to the corresponding article in OJS. But I assume this > requires hacking the handle server? Has anyone done something like this > before or have any tips? The actual difficulty is that the Handle resolver that comes with DSpace is already hacked: it is configured to use a custom storage backend which depends on DSpace's Handle table. A stock Handle resolver would be able to comprehend having this resource on service A, that on service B...but DSpace doesn't know how to deal with the resolver directly. The two services communicate through the shared database. It probably wouldn't take too much effort to build a new Handle provider that interacts with a stock Handle resolver, and I've been thinking that that is really the way for DSpace to go. Has anyone already done that? -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
