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I'm interested, in this idea, if there is some movement
towards standardizing interaction with handle servers through webservices. I
haven't worked actively on handle for quite a while now - but seems
like a good move and I'd like to get involved again. The last time I looked at
this was back in 2001 when I presented a paper about some work I did with Tony
Hammond (now of Nature Publishing Group) at XML 2001 (http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml2001/papers/html/03-02-06.html).
Regards
Eamonn Neylon From: handle-info-admin@cnri.reston.va.us [mailto:handle-info-admin@cnri.reston.va.us] On Behalf Of Colin Alteveer Sent: 16 November 2006 17:07 To: handle-info@cnri.reston.va.us; David Wirth Subject: [Handle-info] Web Services for Handle Servers 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
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