On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Mark Ehle <[email protected]> wrote: > That's the direction I was heading then I thought I would ask. Thanks again, > Ivan. So pretty much the only connection a thumbnail has with it's original > is through filename? Nothing in SOLR or postgres. > > In my case, I am trying to display a wall of thumbnails and they need to be > the thumbnail of the primary bitstream. Do you think that it would be a > legitimate feature request to keep track of that in postgres? And have that > available from REST? I am surprised it's not already, but I would imagine > that I might be asking for something completely irrelevant to what people > usually do with dspace.
I think it's a legitimate request to be able to connect a derived bitstream (thumbnail or text) with original bistream. We don't have a facility for that yet. I don't think it's the use case for a primary bistream, as there can be several derived bitstreams per item. The concept of primary bitstream is missing a clear definition - as it is now it can have different meanings in different contexts, so in my opinion it would be better to replace it with particular concepts, like "this thumbnail represents this item" or "this PDF contains the fulltext for Google Scholar". Those can now (since DSpace 5) be easily represented as bitstream metadata. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
