Change from Handle to DOI

[Alexandre Abreu]

Good morning!

We'd like to change from Handle to DOI in our Dataverse (the production one).
(i) Is it possible?
(ii) if yes, do you know what will happen with the publications that already have Handle ID ?

Best,
Alexandre

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Alexandre,

Yes, it's possible. Harvard Dataverse did just this a while ago. Datasets that once had Handles now have that Handle in the alternativepersistentidentifier* table. If someone lands on the dataset page with the old Handle in the URL, they will see a message saying they should use the DOI version instead.

https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/5064 is where we worked on the migration process but here are the modern docs: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.3/admin/dataverses-datasets.html#mint-a-new-doi-for-a-dataset-with-a-handle

I hope this helps,

Phil

* https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.3/schemaspy/tables/alternativepersistentidentifier.html

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[Julian Gautier]

Oh interesting! Phil could you write more about what you mean by folks seeing a message saying they should use the DOI version instead? When we visit https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/HIJLKAJELN, is the citation in the blue citation box letting folks know that they should use the DOI?

[Philip Durbin]

Here's an example: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/10038

The DOI for that dataset is doi:10.7910/DVN/9L6A8X. Note that there's a metadata field called "Previous Dataset Persistent ID" which is populated by the Handle.

There's no message at the top of the dataset though. Maybe I dreamt it!

On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 10:27 AM Julian Gautier <julian...@g.harvard.edu> wrote:

Oh interesting! Phil could you write more about what you mean by folks seeing a message saying they should use the DOI version instead? When we visit https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/HIJLKAJELN, is the citation in the blue citation box letting folks know that they should use the DOI?

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