#903: Real OpenURL link resolver
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Reporter: skaplun | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: WebSearch | Version:
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In Invenio, a rudimentary OpenURL link resolver is available that resolves
OpenURL to content directly hosted in the corresponding Invenio
repository.
However this could be extended to fully support insitutional electronic
journal subscription.
Suppose (See #902), that a collection in Invenio is configured to contain
records following a certain MARC convention that would each represent an
institutional electronic journal subscription.
E.g. see: http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/229770
This is indeed implemented, ad hoc, at CERN, in the form of the
[http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/Periodicals Periodicals collection].
By carefully using information contained in each of these records, thanks
to an ad hoc algorithm, a generic form is provided that translate a
"journal title" + "year" + "volume" + "initial page" into an URL pointing
to the desired article.
Every electronic journal has its own rules to build such URLs (given the
above parameters), but these can be enumerated.
If this is factored out in a ''plugin infrastructure'', where each URL-
building algorithm is mapped into a plugin, then these plugin would allow
to build a generic '''OpenURL handler''' that would resolve request into
real papers for which the given institution has access to.
Such algorithm might be checked regularly via some dedicated tasklets to
check that they are still valid, or if they require update.
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Ticket URL: <http://invenio-software.org/ticket/903>
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