[Dspace-general] Import items - Replace option

[MacKenzie Smith]

When you add a new item it gets a new Handle (i.e. persistent identifier).
When you replace an item the metadata and/or bitstreams are updated but the 
Handle
remains the same as before, so citations to that item continue to resolve.
When you remove an item the Handle continues to resolve to a tombstone for 
the item
so people can see that it used to exist but is out of circulation.

MacKenzie

At 08:52 AM 1/14/2005 -0300, Beatriz Langiano wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm reading about Importing items in dspace documentation, and there are 
>three oprtions: add, replace and remove items.
>
>I didn't understand about the replace option.
>The documentation says:  "Replacing items uses the map file to replace the 
>old items and still retain their handles".
>
>What does mean "still retain their handles"?
>
>
>Thanks, Beatriz
>
>
>
>
>Beatriz Langiano
>Mestrado em Informática
>Universidade Federal do Paraná - Brasil
>
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