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, > > > > A few exciting changes in Merritt to report. > > > > 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. > > > > As a side benefit, eScholarship is able to harvest ETDs again. The ETD > collections in eScholarship should be up-to-date. > > > > 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 > (!). > > > > As part of this, we also implemented version "0" to always be the latest > version. The persistent URL forms look like this: > > > > http ://n2t.net/[ARK] <http://n2t.net/%5BARK%5D> > > Go to the object landing page > > https ://merritt.cdlib.org/m/[ARK] <http://merritt.cdlib.org/m/%5BARK%5D> > > Go to the object landing page > > https ://merritt.cdlib.org/d/[ARK] <http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/%5BARK%5D> > > Download the object > > https ://merritt.cdlib.org/m/[ARK]/[Version<http://merritt.cdlib.org/m/%5BARK%5D/%5BVersion>number] > > Go to the version landing page > > https ://merritt.cdlib.org/m/[ARK]/0<http://merritt.cdlib.org/m/%5BARK%5D/0> > > Go to the landing page of the latest version > > https ://merritt.cdlib.org/d/[ARK]/[Version<http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/%5BARK%5D/%5BVersion>number]/[Filename] > > Download the file of a particular version > > https ://merritt.cdlib.org/d/[ARK]/0/[Filename]<http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/%5BARK%5D/0/%5BFilename%5D> > > Download the file from the latest version > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Email us at [log in to unmask] if you have any questions. Thanks, > > > > Perry > > > > [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. > > > > > > Perry Willett > > Digital Preservation Services Manager > > California Digital Library > > 415 20th St., 4th Floor > > Oakland CA 94612-2901 > > Ph: 510-987-0078 > > Fax: 510-893-5212 > > Email: [log in to unmask] > > > -- Rita Evans Library Director Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Berkeley 510-643-3564