Re: [Dspace-tech] Experience using external handle and/or use cases

2014-11-18 Thread Jozef Misutka
Dear Peter, I will briefly describe our setup which is non traditional. We have two communities at our repository: - one community uses external handle server; - the other uses the bundled handle server. Another requirement is that we must be able to modify (even create) specific handles

Re: [Dspace-tech] Experience using external handle and/or use cases

2014-11-15 Thread Andrea Bollini
Il 15/11/2014 02.57, Mark Diggory ha scritto: ... I'm not sure if https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1637 really meets the design goal to split off the Handle service entirely from DSpace. It still looks to be a plugin to the existing local handle server. Yes the remote handle service

[Dspace-tech] Experience using external handle and/or use cases

2014-11-14 Thread Peter Dietz
Hi All, I've been reading up on the various configurations that you can run DSpace and the handle service in, and I was wondering if people would be willing to share their experiences with non traditional set ups. So, the out-of-the-box traditional setup, that I'm guessing 99% of us use is to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Experience using external handle and/or use cases

2014-11-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
As discussed on #dspace, one important thing to keep in mind is that DSpace does Handles backwards: it supplies a class for the Handle server to load, which queries DSpace's database for Handle resolution. I believe that what was envisioned by CNRI as typical would be for things to work the other

Re: [Dspace-tech] Experience using external handle and/or use cases

2014-11-14 Thread Mark Diggory
Peter, The way that the Handle service is designed in general, your always going to need a separate Handle Service for all the handles under one or more prefixes. For an organization, this could be a standalone service that maintains mappings for prefixes (and subpaths in suffixes) it assigns to