On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Kim Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stuart wrote:
>
> > > I think handle prefixes should always be treated as Strings, and from
> > what I’ve seen, they usually are (eg. HandleManager).
> > > If there are just a few rare occurrences of “assuming handle
> > prefixes are Integers” in Dspace, perhaps we should open a JIRA issue
> > to identify them all and get them patched. I suspect most culprits will
> > be in the UI code.
> >
> > Does http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-357 cover it?
>
> I see that issue as being related to the CNRI handle plugin/server, which a
> lot of institutions don't use at all, not the internal handling of "handle"
> prefixes in Dspace itself... if we can at least avoid assuming handle
> prefixes are Integers in Dspace, then everything internal (ie. everything
> except resolution of http://hdl.handle.net/xx/xxx handles) will work.
>
If people are assuming this while coding DSpace, its a horrid mistake,
handle prefixes have never been integers... always. From the beginning
dsp...@mit's prefix has always been "1721.1"
Once that is sorted, we can work on DS-357 and fix up the CNRI handle plugin
> for people who subscribe to that service and wish to have non-Integer
> handles.
>
It's not exactly something you can "wish', CNRI assigns the handle prefix,
they are the authority. This is a coding bug. I don't think the Handle
plugin ever had any requirements that this be an integer in it, only the
requirement that it be of the format <prefix>/<id> with a restriction on
using "/" as it is the delimiter.
Note, we should all recall that Richard Jones put a huge amount of working
into extracting the Handle service requirements in the DAO branch a couple
years ago, and somehow, somway, we need to make sure this work on
ExternalIdentifiers really should not go to waste...it is the direction that
will make it so that those orgs that do not want to run a handles server
will not need to worry about what this 1234567890 tomfoolery.
Mark
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