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Dear Handle Users, Here at the Academic ADL Co-Lab we have been
contemplating an automated approach to Handle registration. After meeting with
Henry Jerez and Sean Reilly (CNRI), we have all decided it would be best to
start a working group of sorts to discuss existing implementations, goals, and
the best practice for programmatically creating/registering Handles with our
local Handle servers. A Little Background The main impetus for this functionality is our proof
of concept work on the ADL-R project. As opposed to having the local handle
administrator manually register every new handle, we would very much like it to
be an automated step in the publishing workflow of our repository
implementation. There are currently two client libraries for HANDLE.NET, one
written in Java and one in C. This poses a problem for us because our
repository is written in neither (it is written in python), and even though
there is a possibility of calling portions of the C library, this isn’t
the most attractive or elegant approach. It was thus tentatively agreed that
perhaps an interface via web services would be a better idea seeing as it is
flexible and possible to implement in many languages on the client side. Requirements Our proposed solution has the following requirements;
client side platform/language independence via 1) a web services API for authenticating and creating sessions
for admins/users of the handle server, and 2)
a web services API to the administrative functions of the handle server. If any of this interests you, or you have implementations
you would like to share please let Henry or I know you are interested in
joining the working group. Academic ADL Co-Lab |