Hello Mark, We use DSpace as a core element in our preservation repository design, but we have eliminated the DSpace UI when disseminating content.
When a user clicks on a handle, the handle resolves to a project-specific script that then runs a special SRU query against DSpace. SRU returns a real-time mapping of the "submitted filename" to "assetstore location". Using this mapping our disseminator scripts can build RTSP URLs that communicate the MPEG-4 file location(s) to our Darwin Streaming Server instance, thereby allowing us to stream the content to the user. It sounds like you are using the DSpace UI so I don't know if our approach is helpful, but I thought I would communicate it just in case... regards, Joe -- J.G. Pawletko (joe) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer/Analyst Digital Library Team Bobst Library, New York University (212) 992-9999 -- On 2/21/07 1:22 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:16:31 -0500 > From: "Mark H. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Dspace-tech] Audio and video bitstreams > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
