Support Handles more consistently, rather than just DOIs (which are a subset of handles)

[pdurbin]

Proposed change

Support Handles (similar to DOIs)

That is, perhaps something like this should work:

jupyter-repo2docker hdl:11529/10549105

However, I'm not sure if you want https://mybinder.org/v2/dataverse/11529/10549105 to work? 🤔 Right now DOIs are assumed. As a URL https://mybinder.org/v2/hdl:11529/10549105 makes more sense to me.

Alternative options

From the command line, using the full URL works:

jupyter-repo2docker 'https://data.cimmyt.org/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:11529/10549105'

Who would use this feature?

I'm not 100% sure this feature would be used but last I checked the following Dataverse installations use Handles instead of DOIs

• https://abacus.library.ubc.ca
• https://data.cimmyt.org
• https://dvn.fudan.edu.cn
• https://data.mel.cgiar.org
• https://datos.pucp.edu.pe

Perhaps some of them would like to use Binder. 🤷

How much effort will adding it take?

Not sure.

Who can do this work?

Someone who knows Python.

[yuvipanda]

While doing #1390, I realize that our DoiProvider is actually a HandleProvider because doi.org resolves all handles, not just DOIs! So the lift here is not super high.

[yuvipanda]

It's possible that doi.org will possibly not handle non-dois in the future (https://pidforum.org/t/billions-of-records/372/11?u=yuvipanda), but the API provided is also available at https://hdl.handle.net/ which does handle all handles, including DOIs

[yuvipanda]

Also we already support a subset of handles that exist on dataverse. So while jupyter-repo2docker hdl:11529/10549105 doesn't work, that handle redirects to https://data.cimmyt.org/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:11529/10549105. And jupyter-repo2docker 'https://data.cimmyt.org/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:11529/10549105' does work.

So we kinda support handles, but only on accident.