We continue to get requests for support of audio and video. For longer audio documents, and video of almost any length, the average user isn't going to want to sit watching the thing download and his storage fill up; he's going to expect streaming access that starts almost immediately. This suggests that DSpace needs a way to specify a "nonlocal" bitstream which is just a URL for such a service.
Yeah, we can dream up a metadata field and have it formatted as a link. We're going to do that to start out with. But that's going to be confusing to the end user, who will expect links to the content he found to be all in the same place, and *especially* that the form he most likely prefers will not be off in some unusual location on the page. It would be much nicer if we could e.g. submit an item with two bitstreams: a nonlocal one pointing to a streaming service for casual use, and a local one through which the user can download and keep a copy of the actual document. Comments? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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