Plone add-on to interact with a Handle-based Persistent Identifier (PID) service. Driving use case is the internal coordination portal of the EUDAT project. The client has been developed against version 2 of the European PID Consortium's (EPIC) API. While it may also work with other PID providers such as DataCite/DOI this has not been tested yet.

• A configurable tool where site administrators define the base URL for the handle service to use including the prefix and credentials.
• Plone's internal UIDs are used as suffix together with the configured prefix to construct the handle.
• An 'object' action is added through which a PID registration can be triggered and checked for individual content items.
• Per default, only 'Managers' - but not 'Site Administrators' - can unregister a PID.

This add-on can not yet be seen in action at a public site.

Full documentation for end users will become available as the package matures.

This product has not yet been translated into other languages.

Once there is a release available on PyPI you can install collective.handleclient by adding it to your buildout:

[buildout]

 ...

 eggs =
     collective.handleclient

and then running "bin/buildout"

Until then you need to clone the repository and add it to the development section in your buildout config as well.

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/collective/collective.handleclient/issues
• Source Code: https://github.com/collective/collective.handleclient

If you are having issues, please contact the author.

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.