[Standards] EPIC vs. Handle?

[Menzo Windhouwer]

Hi, Tomaz,

Handles are recommended, but AKAIK also other PID systems are allowed.
Handles is one specific PID system (see [1] for a comparison of PID
systems from the CLARIN preparatory phase). You can run your own Handle
server, i.e., you get a prefix from handle.net and manage your own
suffixes (which is what some CLARIN centers, including the MPI, do), or
you can use the EPIC API to create and manage handles (which also many
CLARIN centers do). Notice version 2 of the EPIC API allows you to still
have an own prefix, which is good if you handles have to move for some
future reason.

On the CLARIN developers mailing list (dev at lists.clarin.eu) you might get
more information on the experiences of other CLARIN centers on managing
their own handle server or using EPIC.

Hope this helps,

Menzo Windhouwer

[1] http://www.clarin.eu/sites/default/files/wg2-2-pid-doc-v4.pdf
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On 25/10/13 11:51, "Tomaz Erjavec" <tomaz.erjavec at ijs.si> wrote:

>Dear all,
>as I've just been added to this mailing list (thanks!) I take this
>opportunity to ask something that I've been trying to figure out just
>yesterday: does CLARIN recommend the use of EPIC or Handles, and what are
>the pros and cons of each choice?
>
>I did consult the CLARIN documentation but it is somewhat contradictory:
>http://www.clarin.eu/sites/default/files/Standards%20for%20LRT-v6.pdf
>says that Handles are advised and does not even mention EPIC.
>On the other hand http://www.clarin.eu/node/3082 says that CLARIN
>recommends EPIC.
>Also, not sure who is to blame, but the link to the EPIC workshop does
>not work; if it is EPIC, given that the WS materials are supposed to be
>on their site, this does not really recommend them as a persistent URL
>service ;)
>
>As regards info on standards on CLARIN pages, one more bug report:
>http://www.clarin.eu/node/3060 (which mentions neither EPIC nor Handles)
>more information is supposed to be given in the "CLARIN Standardization
>Action Plan.", but that link is 404.
>
>Best and thanks in advance for any answers or pointers,
>Tomaž
>-- 
>Tomaž Erjavec, http://nl.ijs.si/et/
>Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
>
>
>
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