Perry,

I need to poke around with this but my initial reaction is a big THANK YOU
to you and your development team for addressing the messy issue of the URL
and its persistent form.

Rita


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Perry Willett <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

>  Dear Merritt users,
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> A few exciting changes in Merritt to report.
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> We've successfully implemented the new Merritt Inventory--this is the
> metadata catalog within Merritt that keeps track of all descriptive and
> system information.[1] This new Inventory should be more responsive (ie
> faster) and also more robust (ie run better). Objects submitted to Merritt
> should show up very quickly after submission. Landing pages for collections
> and objects should come up more quickly also.
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> As a side benefit, eScholarship is able to harvest ETDs again. The ETD
> collections in eScholarship should be up-to-date.
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> Another change we've implemented--we've changed the URL in the browser bar
> to use the persistent form. This means that you can copy the URL from the browser
> for an object, version or a file, and get the persistent URL. This has been
> difficult in the past, because we displayed a different URL from what we recommended
> (!).
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> As part of this, we also implemented version "0" to always be the latest
> version. The persistent URL forms look like this:
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> http ://n2t.net/[ARK] <http://n2t.net/%5BARK%5D>
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> Go to the object landing page
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> https ://merritt.cdlib.org/m/[ARK] <http://merritt.cdlib.org/m/%5BARK%5D>
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> Go to the object landing page
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> https ://merritt.cdlib.org/d/[ARK] <http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/%5BARK%5D>
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> Download the object
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> https ://merritt.cdlib.org/m/[ARK]/[Version<http://merritt.cdlib.org/m/%5BARK%5D/%5BVersion>number]
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> Go to the version landing page
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> https ://merritt.cdlib.org/m/[ARK]/0<http://merritt.cdlib.org/m/%5BARK%5D/0>
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> Go to the landing page of the latest version
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> https ://merritt.cdlib.org/d/[ARK]/[Version<http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/%5BARK%5D/%5BVersion>number]/[Filename]
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> Download the file of a particular version
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> https ://merritt.cdlib.org/d/[ARK]/0/[Filename]<http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/%5BARK%5D/0/%5BFilename%5D>
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> Download the file from the latest version
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> Note that the ARK and Filenames in all of the examples above, except for
> first example (n2t.net), should be "URL encoded". But if you cut and
> paste from the browser, you'll get a properly encoded, persistent URL.
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> This required a tremendous amount of work--hats off to Stephen Abrams for
> creating the database schema, David Loy for developing and implementing the
> new Inventory, Mark Reyes for integrating Ingest with it, and Marisa
> Strong, Shirin Faenza and especially Erik Hetzner for switching the UI to
> work with it.
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> Email us at [log in to unmask] if you have any questions. Thanks,
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> Perry
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> [1] As consistent with the micro-services philosophy, all descriptive and
> system metadata are stored with the object in the storage system. The
> database provides optimization for users.
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> Perry Willett
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> Digital Preservation Services Manager
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> California Digital Library
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> 415 20th St., 4th Floor
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> Oakland CA 94612-2901
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> Ph: 510-987-0078
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> Fax: 510-893-5212
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> Email: [log in to unmask]
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-- 
Rita Evans
Library Director
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California, Berkeley
510-643-3564