I don't believe there's any way for oai-ids to change. If you want to do that, you'd have to mark the original as deleted and then create new one. This should work fine for all your clients. However, you lose history and association. IOW - the client has no way of knowing that records 011 and 012 derived from record 010. Depending on what you're trying to do, that might be just fine.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Fischer, Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fischer@sub.uni-goettingen.de">fischer@sub.uni-goettingen.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
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I am wondering if there is a standard way to change OAI identifiers.<br>
For example, we might restructure our collection, or will have to split some items that were under one identifier into several ones. I could even imagine something like "throw away everything from this set from this OAI Service Provider and collect everything anew".<br>
Is there a way to communicate this to my OAI clients?<br>
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Best regards<br>
Thomas Fischer<br>
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Dr. Thomas Fischer<br>
Research and Development Department (RDD)<br>
Göttingen State and University Library<br>
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen<br>
37073 Goettingen<br>
Germany<br>
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