> But we don't > *use* e.g. telephone numbers, so why store them if we don't have to? And we > certainly should NOT copy data from the directory (when there is > one) and keep local duplicates which eventually go stale and mislead our users. > We don't need two sets of stewards for the same data.
I wish it was that simple. Sometimes people leave the institution and drop out of whatever directory you were hoping to get data from. When that happens, do you intend for the user to get none of that information? I'm afraid someone is going to have to be responsible for caching whatever data you got from your directory or seeing to it that there is a policy that no data is ever removed from that directory that you're counting on. Ralph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
