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See project pages: 'Hello World' | Code Examples | Handle Gallery
OpenHandle is a project to expose Handle records in common text-based serializations to make the data stored within the records more accessible to Web applications. OpenHandle is not a replacement for the Handle System, but rather is a new means of accessing Handle.
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Specifically, OpenHandle is a Java servlet-based front-end to the Handle System for exposing records as RDF/XML, RDF/N3, and JSON and as such makes Handle records readable via simple web services. See also:
- Gallery Page for examples of Handles 'in the wild' serialized by OpenHandle
- Code Examples for examples of accessing OpenHandle from various programming languages
- To-Do List for OpenHandle project
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Initial serializations include the following:
A candidate serialization format would be SPARQL Query Results: XML Format and/or JSON.
Related topics under discussion:
- Handle RDF Schema
- The RDF schema defines a constraint grammar for an RDF representation of a Handle record (RDF/XML, RDF/N3)
- Handle URI Scheme
- Currently there is no native URI scheme for handle (it can be represented under the 'info' URI scheme) which leads to uncertainties in how best to cite Handle
- Handle API (JSON)
- Although a command line API is available for batch processing by the Java codebase it would be useful to see a lower barrier to entry for Handle admin - hence the JSON API here being developed