On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:14:15AM -0400, Mark Diggory wrote: > 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?
Only if I can answer them in the wrong order :) > 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? Yes, definitely. At the moment, files get UUIDs, which are used in the URL space instead of sequence ids etc. For example, the following url points to a pdf in my testing repository: [my_base_url]/dspace/resource/uuid:d0875067-6853-4c54-9d72-ff7888e43c42 > 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)? It would work exactly the same for Bitstreams as it currently does for Items. This is purely about enlarging the scope (and expanding the flexibility) of what we're currently doing, not necessarily about changing the way we do it (at least not yet). 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: 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
