Jim, Just for clarification to the group... Its unclear what your requesting a vote on: Anyone can assign an external identifier to a Bitstream in an external identification system. Can you answer the two following questions for the group?
1.) Are you suggesting that we will support an infrastructure in DSpace to assign those via an external identifier service (currently the Handle System in 1.5, ExternalIdentifierManager in 1.6)? 2.) Are you suggesting that Internal Identifiers (currently sequence id's) will be structured differently in 1.6 such that one can assign one to a bitstream independent of the parent items identifier? Feeding the fire, Mark On Jul 19, 2007, at 5:51 AM, James Rutherford wrote: > Hi all, > > As part of my work on the identification mechanisms employed by DSpace > (both internal and externally managed identifiers) I've decided that > it's better to assign external identifiers to files than to not (which > is the current policy). Whether or not external identifiers are used > (and if so, which ones) will be configurable, but what I would like to > know is whether anyone has a problem with assigning external > identifiers > to files at all. > > If possible, could we keep this to a +/- 1 system (+1 to assign > them to > files, -1 to not). I definitely don't want to turn this into a > discussion about identification systems more generally otherwise we'll > be here until next year. Also, if you vote -1 a short explanation > about > why would be useful. > > cheers, > > Jim > > -- > James Rutherford | Hewlett-Packard Limited registered > Office: > Research Engineer | Cain Road, > HP Labs | Bracknell, > Bristol, UK | Berks > +44 117 312 7066 | RG12 1HN. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Registered No: 690597 England > > The contents of this message and any attachments to it are > confidential and > may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in > error, you > should delete it from your system immediately and advise the > sender. To any > recipient of this message within HP, unless otherwise stated you > should > consider this message and attachments as "HP CONFIDENTIAL". > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office: E25-131 Phone: (617) 253-1096 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
