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.
Different aspects of this problem:
1) I'd like to see a 'persistent url' field in the metadata for our
collections. this should be displayed to the user
with a note to 'use this url to refer to this item'.
2) I'd like to see us have a discussion with ArtStor about these –
maybe we can work out a way to get these assigned
at record creation time. This would take some technical work on our
part, and on their part.
3) I am not sure how shared shelf works into this – Do items there
have their own URL that changes when they go into
'ArtStor' itself? When (a collection, an item) moves from 'ArtStor'
to 'OpenShelf' (is that the right term?) does it change it's
URL?
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