Re: [EP-underground] Persistent URLs?

That would be very very easy to do.

You could even make a persistant id field, which then (on record write) 
gets set to the persistant ID you want to use. This has the advantage 
that you could then start a new persistant ID scheme later, but keep old 
records using the old one. If that's desirable.

Nikkels wrote:

> Hi Christopher,
>
> The persistent url is an issue as I'd like articles to be citable by a 
> permanent url.  The EPrints generated url and article ID is very 
> convenient but it still incorporates the TLD. If the TLD ever changes 
> all the old citations will obviously not resolve. Of course I doubt 
> the TLD will change but one never knows.
>
> I think I've found a simple way to solve the problem though but I'll 
> have to install EPrints first and test if it works.  Basically if I 
> use a service like PURL I can register a partial domain. So I could 
> register the TLD and then dynamically create a persistent url by 
> combining this with the article ID. I'm assuming it should be fairly 
> easy to hack that into the ID metadata display......
>
> Any other thoughts or suggestions are appreciated!
>
> Paul
>
> On 1-Apr-05, at 15:46, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>
>> The most simple way to have a persistant URL is to decide never to 
>> change it! EPrints provides simple, short URL's which should remain 
>> valid for the life of your archive ("forever").
>>
>> Can you give a bit more information about what you need a persistent 
>> URL for? It's clearly a key issue to you and it would be good if we 
>> could address it.
>>
>> Nikkels wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if this is too technical for the list...
>>>
>>> I'm looking for an archive solution and I'm comparing eprints and 
>>> d-space.  I like the simplicity of eprints but I haven't found 
>>> anything that confirms whether it supports persitent urls/handles by 
>>> default like d-space.  I found some info through Google from early 
>>> 2004 that talked about setting up an external solution but that's it.
>>>
>>> Any advice or pointers are appreciated!
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
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