Rick Silterra sent this proposal to Liz:
Liz,
I'd like us work assigning persistent URLs to all our
visual items in artstor. At this point, I would suggest handles, as we
have a handle server, and a task
force on persistent identifiers recommended that a while back. https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/PIDS/Home
(sorry, no handle for the report address!)
Pete hoyt working on some tools for handle maintenance from the web.
There are already batch tools
for this. Step 1 at least does not need to be a whole lot of work –
if we have a spreadsheet of image id's, artstor or luna id URL's, we
can
generate these very quickly. I don't know how much work is involved
in reloading data WITH these things, but
I got the impression that doing that was not a major effort. Please
correct me if I am wrong.
...
I'd like to get this implanted into the work flow, so
how can we move this along? who needs to be involved?
Thanks a lot,
Rick
Liz replied:
I think this is a good idea. We probably need to develop two different workflows – one for our current ARTstor Digital Library collections, and one for the collections which we upload into Shared Shelf.
ARTstor Digital Library:
I don't think it would be difficult to get a spreadsheet of image IDs and URLs from ARTstor. The difficult part would be getting ARTstor to upload our handles into the metadata. It often takes ARTstor 4-12 months to upload new collections/metadata! We'd need to push them on this. Another question is whether we want to wait until we move these to Shared Shelf to add handles...
ARTstor Shared Shelf:
We have a lot more control in this environment. We can create new metadata fields and add/edit metadata as we wish. Since Open Shelf is still under development, we don't know exactly how/when the URLs would be assigned. The earliest we will start moving collections into Open Shelf would be during summer 2011. In the meantime, it is worth having a conversation with ARTstor about the logistics of URLs and handle creation.
How about putting a meeting on our calendars to have a preliminary discussion? It would make sense for Danielle, Mira, you, and I to be there (am I missing anyone on your end?). We can scope out the issues and decide on what we'd like to see from ARTStor. Thanks for following up on this.