Re: [Dspace-tech] Reading other files in Manakin (was: Re: Desired hierarchical display of communities and collection list)

2007-11-29 Thread Dorothea Salo
On Nov 28, 2007 4:37 PM, Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that adding techMD to the METS is architecturally the right thing, but there is already a better (or at least, adequate..) technical metadata standard format in PREMIS. There is already a PREMIS crosswalk for the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reading other files in Manakin (was: Re: Desired hierarchical display of communities and collection list)

2007-11-28 Thread Larry Stone
I agree that adding techMD to the METS is architecturally the right thing, but there is already a better (or at least, adequate..) technical metadata standard format in PREMIS. There is already a PREMIS crosswalk for the import/export METS packager which you can cannibalize, see

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reading other files in Manakin (was: Re: Desired hierarchical display of communities and collection list)

2007-11-27 Thread Dorothea Salo
Okay, I did a little bit of scouting around today, and I discovered that this gets really hairy really fast, but we probably can do something about it, if we're willing to create a DSpace-specific metadata schema just to hold bitstream information (which might not be the world's worst idea,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reading other files in Manakin (was: Re: Desired hierarchical display of communities and collection list)

2007-11-26 Thread Larry Stone
I haven't looked at the Manakin code, but the MIME media-type of a Bitstream must be coming from its associated BitstreamFormat -- so why not get the human-readable name from the BitstreamFormat as well? There is no need to establish a separate map of MIME-type to user-friendly name when it

[Dspace-tech] Reading other files in Manakin (was: Re: Desired hierarchical display of communities and collection list)

2007-11-21 Thread Dorothea Salo
(Subject changed to keep from hijacking the earlier thread.) For instance, the hierarchical structure of the collections could be modelled in a simple XML or HTML document, and this hiearchy file could be read by Manakin and used to add contextual information and links to the web pages it

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reading other files in Manakin (was: Re: Desired hierarchical display of communities and collection list)

2007-11-21 Thread Conal Tuohy
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 16:43 -0600, Dorothea Salo wrote: (Subject changed to keep from hijacking the earlier thread.) For instance, the hierarchical structure of the collections could be modelled in a simple XML or HTML document, and this hiearchy file could be read by Manakin and used to