Rick Silterra sent this proposal to Liz:
Liz,
I'd like us to work on 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 (see below) at least does not need to be a whole lot of work –
if we have a spreadsheet of image id's, and artstor or luna id URL's, we
can generate these persistent ids 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.
Of course, even it it is not a major effort, the work might take a while to get into the queue of
things for ArtStor. Please
correct me if I am wrong.
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