[Dspace-general] Re: Using DSpace to store URI

[Scott Yeadon]

John,

You may be better off having an index at the collection level with 
hyperlinks to all the servlets URIs, this would be easier to maintain, 
and is separated from the DSpace object itself and doesn't need any 
specific handling code. It means the user has to go the the collection 
to find the list and navigate to the servlet, but that may be a minor 
disadvantage.

If you store the URI as an item of metadata (e.g. location), you might 
not render a link (since you need to know the object is one which you 
want to render a link for or make a proprietary metadata field to store 
this in order to render it differently) and simply add text to the 
collection page that lets users know that copying the URI into their 
browser will take them to the site if available.Note if you store URIs, 
it adds a bit of maintenance overhead whenever the location changes.

If you want the user to click on the title in the browse window to be 
taken to the site, then you'll have cater for this behaviour as a 
special case. This probably isn't a good idea since it reduces the 
generic nature of the object handling - even if you handled all servlets 
in the repository the same way you would need to cater for servlets 
which no longer or never had a site, any special access for internal 
servlets, etc. If you do want to have specific behaviours fro particular 
objects, then it is worth thinking about doing this within a generic 
framework otherwise you'll probbaly find yourself battling with various 
hacks as your repository grows and many more "special cases"  emerge.

Scott.

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:29:08 -0500
From: John Preston <john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm>
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Subject: [Dspace-general] Using DSpace to store URI
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Hello, Can anyone tell me how I can use DSpace to store URI, I have a
number of servlets that I wish to store within DSpace so they can be
searched on, then  when the user finds them, they go to the site.



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