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

["Srijith K. Nair" <srijith.k@gmail.com>]

Exactly my thoughts John. Now, if only some kind soul would implement this :)

I guess PURL is a compromise solution.

Srijith


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:59 PM, John S. Erickson <john.erickson@hp.com> wrote:
> 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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