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<p class=MsoNormal>We are working on a project that will take our current
eprints collection from a dedicated eprints repository platform to a new
repository platform where eprints will be one of many collections. I’m
trying to understand what the OAI implications of this will be and what might
be the impact of harvesters and other service providers. One of the
things is with this broadening of the repository is it will use a different
domain name as currently designed. I note however that this goes against
the OAi Identifier principles as we would want our namespace identifier to
change also. This is currently defined as:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><description><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
<scheme>oai</scheme><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
<repositoryIdentifier>eprints.rhul.ac.uk.OAI2</repositoryIdentifier><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We might in future want it to be:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><description><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
<scheme>oai</scheme><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
<repositoryIdentifier>digirep.rhul.ac.uk</repositoryIdentifier><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The OAI data provider registration
guidelines (http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html) states a
repository can only have one namespace identifier and a repository may not
change its namespace identifier. Does this mean:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>It’s not possible to change the OAI identifier
as specified above?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>We could change the OAI identifier above but we need
to remove all registrations for our old repository and register this as a new
repository rather than change the repository information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>c)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Continue to use our existing eprints.rhul.ac.uk domain
in the OAI identifier configuration even though the repository URL is now
digirep.rhul.ac.uk because the identifier only relates to the OAI
request/response harvesting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Has anyone done a similar repository
migration and considered these kinds of issues or has any suggestions on what
best practice would be in this sort of scenario.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>May thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Alison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alison
Pope</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Business
Analyst</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IT
Business Development</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Computer
Centre</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Royal
Holloway, University of London</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Egham</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Surrey</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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0EX</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:alison.pope@rhul.ac.uk"><span style='color:blue'>alison.pope@rhul.ac.uk</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>01784
414925</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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