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Ben Companjen
May 12, 2014, 11:58:33 AM5/12/14
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Hi Eleni,
(Personally speaking here)
(Personally speaking here)
Did you consider service costs? Looking at costs of various services, it seems that Handle is cheapest.
A Handle prefix costs $50 per year, whereas EZID starts at $500 per year (for DOI and ARKs) and DataCite requires a $8500 membership to allow allocation of new DOIs.
(Of course a Handle prefix does not come with allocation and resolution service per se, but the Handle software and DVN have done that so far.)
I attended a training with an introduction to EPIC, the European Persistent Identifier Consortium, that allows prefix owners to 'host' their handle server on a grid, for next to nothing (they haven't finalised their business model yet). So even if one's own infrastructure wouldn't support running a handle server, there are options to do it for little money.
A Handle prefix costs $50 per year, whereas EZID starts at $500 per year (for DOI and ARKs) and DataCite requires a $8500 membership to allow allocation of new DOIs.
(Of course a Handle prefix does not come with allocation and resolution service per se, but the Handle software and DVN have done that so far.)
I attended a training with an introduction to EPIC, the European Persistent Identifier Consortium, that allows prefix owners to 'host' their handle server on a grid, for next to nothing (they haven't finalised their business model yet). So even if one's own infrastructure wouldn't support running a handle server, there are options to do it for little money.
Regards,
Ben
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Eleni Castro
May 13, 2014, 1:59:25 PM5/13/14
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Hi Ben,
Thanks for your feedback! Cost is definitely something we have been seriously thinking about as a possible barrier for installation/upgrade, but we're also looking at prioritizing our current development effort, since we are re-working the entire system for our 4.0 release.
We will keep looking into this to see if there is a serious interest from the community in support for minting Handles in 4.0+. We also openly encourage contributions to our code in git via a pull request.
Cheers,
Eleni
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Eleni Castro
Research Coordinator, Data Acquisition and Archiving, Data Science
IQSS, Harvard University
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/eleni-castro
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