Re: [Handle-info] Handles: new prefix for new application?

[Henry Jerez <hjerez@cnri.reston.va.us>]

Greetings
Just a tiny bit of technical background on the information for your  
benefit in case you would like to explore this more.
The reason you would need to use a different prefix if you want to  
continue running Dspace is that while the handle server allows for  
multiple  applications to share the same handle server; Dspace  does  
not accomodate for this case. This is due to the fact that  Dspace  
stores the data it creates using the sequential handle numbers that it  
generates and it does not expect any other clients to create handles  
in the same service. This means that it could try to overwrite handles  
you have already created using other applications if a collision  
arrises. If you wanted to share the same space you could probably  
introduce some type of token to ensure that all the handles created by  
Dspace never collide with other handles created by the other  
application. This will require code modifications on the Dspace end as  
Jane mentioned and might or might not accommodate for Digitool own  
expectations for  the handle  service.
I hope this helps
Thanks
Henry

Henry Jerez
Senior Research Scientist

Corporation for National Research Initiatives

hjerez@cnri.reston.va.us

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On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Jane Euler wrote:

> Hi:
> You can get a new prefix or use a derived prefix and you will want  
> to use a completely different handle service. In order to use the  
> same prefix(and same handle service) as your Dspace installation you  
> would probably need to do some development(coding) to make it work.
>
> Thanks
> Jane Euler
> CNRI
>
>
>
>
> At 02:07 PM 4/21/2008, Pascal Vincent Calarco wrote:
> > Hi all --
> >
> > I suspect I know the answer here, but want to confirm, to be sure.   
> > I did not see this answered on the FAQ.  If it is there, could  
> > someone kindly point me to the answer?
> >
> > We have an established prefix of 2305 for our DSpace installation.   
> > Now we want to use another application, Digitool, to also use  
> > handles.  Do I need to apply for another completely new prefix, a  
> > derived prefix, or can I use the 2305 prefix with this application  
> > as well?  Thanks much!
> >
> > - pascal
> >
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