Re: [Handle-info] personal DOI-like service?

["John S. Erickson" <john.erickson@hp.com>]

So, this is not only a good question, but also a question that has been 
asked off-and-on since DOI early days!

The question is not simply about having a personal, maintainable 
persistent URL service; that could be achieved using HS (if the 
individual is knowledgeable), PURL, or if maintainability is not 
required, tinyurl.

The question is more about having a DSpace-like virtual repository 
service: the persistent maintainable URL is one aspect, but a 
presentation of descriptive information, etc, etc is also part of it.

There are some near solutions; for example,
http://demo.openrepository.com/ could potentially solve the problem. The 
trouble is that OR is based on DSpace, which persists real assets, not 
links. Also, OR is not free (although a three-month free trial is 
available).

What is really needed is something like an AJAX front end on HS that 
would render MD stuff into a HDL record; user fills out the HDL record 
with all of the MD listed below and could maintain as required.

For inspiration on ease-of-use, see http://drop.io

Srijith K. Nair wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I came across Handle as I was looking for a service like the one DOI
> provides but geared for individuals. In short I am looking for a
> solution that address the problem of link rot in academic publication
> references. "Handle" provides the basic solution to handle this.
> However, I have not come across any software that implements a similar
> solution that I can use out of the box.
>
> If you know of anything that fits my bill, please help me by pointing
> me in the rigth direction.
>
> In more detail:
> What I am looking for is something that works like this. Users are
> allowed access to a login-protected page where they can add details of
> digital objects (papers/reports/software page in my case) including
> the meta-data like authors, title etc. and a link to the digital
> version of their object. Once this is submitted, the system provides a
> long-lived permanent URL to that resource details, which can be passed
> on to others and referenced in publications etc. When a user surfs to
> that URL, he is presented with the details of the object as well as
> the latest link to object. Thus if the author has to change the
> location of the object (say from his Univ hosted website to his
> personal page), he can log into the system and just update the URL.
>
> Regards,
> Srijith
>
>
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