Hi,
First off, I do agree that picasa is an awesome tool. I use it all the time
for personal use. And syncing photos to your web gallery is super easy.
Second, the picasaweb API is super easy to use, to re-purpose your photos,
i.e.
https://github.com/Cloudhaus/RailHaus/blob/master/app/views/events/show.html.erb
However, I'm stumbling into a blank for what to do next with picasaweb, and
then to DSpace. Maybe you could build an app for sword, that will let you
specify a picasaweb gallery to mirror/migrate into your DSpace, and then
have sword do the submission. Or, like a collection in DSpace, you can
specify the content source as being a picasaweb gallery to fetch the
content, and import into DSpace. However, once the import is successful, it
shouldn't really try to poll for updates to the gallery. Another possibility
would be to add a step to configurable-submission, where you can specify
remote source and have it fetch a bunch of images during a submission. This
might import the gallery as as multiple bitstreams in one item. I attended a
conference at OCLC today, where the Dryad project was demonstrated, and they
could specify a content source, and enter a unique ID for the article (doi),
and then it will go fetch the paper. I think @mire was contracted to build
that. Additionally, I'm sure someone, somewhere is foaming at the mouth
thinking curation task.
Another, most likely more complicated approach would be to look at Adobe's
latest offering.
http://www.adobe.com/products/adobedrive/
If one were to make DSpace CMIS compatible, you can have user upload
directly to DSpace from Adobe Bridge. That sounds like it might meet people
where they're working in the digitization workflow.
Sorry, that sounds like a big long brain dump.
Peter Dietz
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Vibhaj Rajan <
vibhaj.rajan.cs...@itbhu.ac.in> wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> I also took the word deprecated to mean something developers usually take
> but from your notice, I agree that use of the API would be fine.
>
> Thanks for the wonderful idea about uploading from Picasa. Though I am not
> among the DSpace developers but only another student interested to
> contribute to DSpace, I thank you for your will to help DSpace improve.
>
> Hope the topic receives the attention of the developers at DSpace.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Joseph <joseph.rho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good Point Vibhaj. I noticed that it was deprecated, but the following
>> disclaimer was on the project home page (
>> http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/)
>>
>> "Note: The Picasa APIs will continue to function in existing and future
>> versions of the Picasa client for the foreseeable future. However, these
>> APIs are being marked as deprecated to reflect that they're no longer
>> undergoing active development and experimentation, which is the hallmark of
>> APIs in the Code Labs program."
>>
>> I read it as meaning that they're not adding anything to it, but that it's
>> not necessarily going anywhere.
>> Not what I usually think of when someone mentions deprecated, but it seams
>> reassuring in this case.
>> I could be wrong.
>>
>> I think it would be a nice addition to be able to submit from Picasa. Its
>> got a rather slick interface for displaying and organizing images, and it's
>> intuitive to select a bunch of images, or folder, and click an "Archive in
>> DSpace" button. The user could then provide the appropriate metadata common
>> to the files.
>>
>> I'm willing to throw around more ideas with those involved in this GSOC
>> project, or continue the discussion on this list.
>>
>> -Joseph
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:14, Vibhaj Rajan <
>> vibhaj.rajan.cs...@itbhu.ac.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Joseph,
>>>
>>> I found the Picasa API to be deprecated but the idea seems to be very
>>> much interesting.
>>> Making usage of DSpace easier to non-technical users was the aim of the
>>> Improve Submitter User Experience idea at GSoC this year.
>>> I think DSpace developers mentoring that project will have much to say
>>> regarding this.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Joseph <joseph.rho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> DSpace Developers,
>>>>
>>>> I came across this API today and I was wondering if anyone has tried to
>>>> make a bridge between DSpace and Picasa.
>>>> http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/docs/web_uploader.html
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking that it may be possible to interact with the sword
>>>> interface somehow.
>>>>
>>>> I'm at a Lab that has tens of thousands of images and I'm looking for
>>>> ways to make it easier for non-tech people to add many images to a
>>>> collection.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts or experiences?
>>>>
>>>> Thank You,
>>>> Joseph
>>>>
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