[Dspace-tech] Week 4: Bitstream types

2008-09-08 Thread Dorothea Salo
I know I'm seriously late on last week's chat summary; it's on my to-do list for today. Sorry about that! This week's question has to do with bitstreams. DSpace is designed around discrete papers contained within single bitstreams, and it also handles websites reasonably well. The question is:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Week 4: Bitstream types

2008-09-08 Thread Sands Fish
Dorothea, Concerning current work in the Bitstream type area of DSpace development, I presented at Open Repositories 08 ( http:// pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/127/ ) on Larry Stone's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) work, which greatly enhances DSpace's ability to handle and potentially disseminate

Re: [Dspace-tech] Week 4: Bitstream types

2008-09-08 Thread Shane Beers
DSpace is, honestly, not good at doing anything regarding audiovisual data types besides doing what it does with textual data - storing them, providing basic metadata, and allowing users to download them. While this is often good enough for textual data (combined with the indexing of the