Open Natkeeran opened 4 years ago
@Natkeeran thanks for this feature request.
@Natkeeran I now have a submodule that mints and bind ARKs via N2T (in the n2t branch). I can add this alias feature if you'd like but I have a question. Is the alias you want always everything after the ark:
scheme? The module supports "branded" ARKs, which can use a local hostname to redirect to the ARK resolver (see more info at http://n2t.net/e/n2t_apidoc.html). I want to make sure that circular redirects are not possible, e.g. a branded ARK that redirects back to the Drupal host, which then redirects to the ARK resolver, which then resolves to the Drupal host. I think if we remove the ark:/
scheme that will prevent circular redirects.
I'd like this feature to be applicable to any identifier scheme, for example DOIs, Handles, etc.
I have working code for this in the n2t branch. It removes the PID namespace, anything up to and including a the first :
if one is present. For example, when the ARK https://ids-n2t2-stg.n2t.net/ark:/99999/fq3rc75
is created, the alias is /99999/fq3rc75
. Admins activate the option to create URL aliases via a checkbox at the bottom of admin/config/persistent_identifiers/settings
.
One gotcha: nodes can only have one URL alias. If a node has a URL alias, the one created by this module replaces it. Is that acceptable?
@mjordan Thanks Mark. As alias creation is an option, this seems reasonable. I assume if the user wants to overwrite the url aliases for some objects, they can still do it afterwards.
There are use cases to show the identifiers portion of the pid/url as the url of a resource.
For example,given https://n2t.net/ark:/67531/metadc107835/ as the pid of the object, and it resolves to dsu.example.com/node/2, we would like to have an alias so that it can resolve to dsu.example.com/67531/metadc107835/.
Would like to have the option to resolve to dsu.example.com/67531/metadc107835 by default for all objects in a repository. This is specially useful for multisites, where node/id can collide easily.