[EP-tech] Re: Handles in EPrints

[Ian Stuart]

The problem I had with handle servers was adding a new record: having 
created item 1234 in the repo, there was no way to inject that into the 
handle server.

Your, what I would call "proxy pass", solution looks good. Can it be 
extended so one could do:

http://hdl.handle.net/<your_prefix>/repo_id1/xyz -> 
http://your.repo1.url/xyz

-and-

http://hdl.handle.net/<your_prefix>/repo_id2/xyz -> 
http://your.repo2.url/xyz

?
('cos *that* would be really useful!)

On 08/01/13 09:53, Jose Martin wrote:
> In case someone is working with the Handle System (migrating from DSpace
> to EPrints, for instance), version 7 brings template handles which make
> it much easier to provide an EPrints repository with persistent URLs.
>
> While previous versions required a new record to be created in the local
> Handle server database for every persistent URL like
> http://hdl.handle.net/<prefix>/<item_id> to be resolved, we are now able
> to simply define a template that will map any
>
> http://hdl.handle.net/<your_prefix>/xyz
>
> to
>
> http://your.repo.url/xyz
>
> Assuming the following scenario:
>
> - 7.x Handle server set up and running
>
> - A prefix (institutional id registered in the Handle System) homed on
> that server. We’ll use 123456 for this example
>
> - Your EPrints repository is located at http://your.repo.url
>
> Here is how:
>
> 1. For handle 123456: create a Simple URL with the value
> http://your.repo.url
>
> 2. For handle 0.NA/123456: add an HS_NAMESPACE entry with the following
> UTF8 Text value:
>
>      <namespace>
>
>        <template delimiter="/">
>
>          <foreach>
>
>            <if value="type" test="equals" expression="URL">
>
>                <value data= "${data}/${extension}" />
>
>            </if>
>
>            <else>
>
>                <value />
>
>            </else>
>
>          </foreach>
>
>        </template>
>
>      </namespace>
>
> And we’re done! Any URL with the format http://hdl.handle.net/123456/*
> will be resolved as http://your.repo.url/*. Even non-valid handles, but
> you get a lightweight local handle server that does the job.
>
> Especially dedicated to Ian and John, after our handles conversation at
> OR2012   :)
>
> Cheers,
>
>                  Jose


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