MPDL GWDG Developer Meeting 2010-03-16

MPDL Summary of Video Conference meeting, March 16 2010  Restricted Access to MPDL

Documentation

 * The PID service website is located at http://www.pidconsortium.eu/
 * GWDG provides a JavaDoc at: http://handle.gwdg.de/javadocs/
 * GWDG will provide some documentation about the service interface:
 * REST interface documentation.
 * Output XML documentation (An XML schema should be define).

Going productive

 * GWDG will maintain 2 instances, one productive, one for testing. The test instance will always have the last version of Handle service.
 * GWDG will provide 2 user accounts to the MPDL:
 * a "productive" account, which will be used for the productive Handle service instance. PID created by this user are persistent.
 * a test account, which will used on test handle service instance. PID created by this user might be (must not) deleted.
 * GWDG will communicate about the last changed in the Handle service. The way it will be communicated (blog, mailing list, ...) is not still decided.
 * It might be decided to enable versionning of PID service, to ensure client side solution reliability.

Miscellaneous

 * The PID service will not allow to define multiple handle for one URL. It was already the case by creation of PID, but not by Updating of a PID, see URL with multiple handles
 * That means for our MPDL cache service to envisage handling of that case (probably a reporting mechanism)
 * The PID service doesn't check validity of URLs so far, but intends to do it on a later stage.