How to migrate from Handle to DOI

[Paul Boon]

Hi all, 

We are investigating the possibility to change the PID from Handle to DOI

What have others done in case of this change:  

What did you do with the existing datasets that have Handles

and what did you do with the handle service?

 

Thanks, 

Paul

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Paul,

When you use the "Mint a New DOI for a Dataset with a Handle" API endpoint[1] to call reregisterHDLToPID[2] in the admin API, the RegisterDvObjectCommand[3] is called with the "migrateHandle" boolean set to true which mints a DOI for the dataset and saves the old Handle in the "alternativepersistentidentifier" table[4].

Datasets that are migrated in this way will have a metadata field called "Previous Dataset Persistent ID"[5] such as in the attached screenshot and both the old and the new URLs will work as in the following example:

- old: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/10038

- new: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/9L6A8X

I hope this helps,

Phil

1. http://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.16/admin/dataverses-datasets.html#mint-a-new-doi-for-a-dataset-with-a-handle

2. https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/v4.16/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Admin.java#L1206

3. https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/v4.16/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/engine/command/impl/RegisterDvObjectCommand.java

4. http://phoenix.dataverse.org/schemaspy/latest/tables/alternativepersistentidentifier.html

5. https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/v4.16/src/main/webapp/dataset.xhtml#L719

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[Paul Boon]

Thanks for the extensive answere Phil, 

I think we would go for the assignment of DOI's for al the existing datasets, as Phil suggests. 

Then all datasets get this DOI, also I just tested that API call and it works on our 4.10.1 fork, great!

 

What we would also like is to somehow stop maintaining this handle service, if it only has a fixed set of handles all referring to those new DOI's that don't change ever. 

Is there a way to somehow 'outsource' this?

[Philip Durbin]

I don't know but I would suggest asking at https://www.pidforum.org

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