Ticket #1145 (new enhancement)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 23 months ago

Support the Handle System

Reported by: timmcnamara Owned by:
Priority: awaiting triage Milestone: ckan-backlog
Component: ckan Keywords:
Cc: Repository: ckan
Theme: none

Description

The Handle System is an initiative to provide persistent references for resources. That is, it's basically a proxy system for preventing link rot.

Its documentation is here: ​http://www.handle.net/. Servers running CKAN could host a "Local Handle Service", which redirects a hash of a resource to an actual URL.

Some suggested use cases:

  • Researcher would like to cite where data came from
  • Agencies would like to have a way to prevent vendor lock-in from CKAN if they decide to move to another platform

Change History

comment:1 Changed 23 months ago by seanh

  • Milestone set to ckan-backlog
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