And to follow up on this question, what if you import content into a JCR repository that already has a globally unique id such as a DOI? Or what if there were content that had two identifiers from two different naming authorities?
One idea being explored at Johns Hopkins is having all these different repository implementations (dspace, fedora etc) talk to each other and exchange content; the idea being the service accessing the content won't need to know or care what type of content repository the data comes from. There will definitly be a need to map identifiers across diverse systems. I'm wondering what may help facilitate this in JCR? Elliot >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/09/05 12:23 PM >>> <...snip...> Sure it's easy to add a property 'handle' to a node and model it that way, but it would be way more elegant (and more future proof, since I'm already thinking about exporting that content as RDF, were the URIs are king) if it was possible for JCR to allow *you* to pick the UUID for the node. So, my question is: is it possible to specify the node UUID externally? (as long as local unicity is guaranteed, obviously) -- Stefano.
