Ryan, Yes, we have an ongoing project (PLEDGE) that is working to modify DSpace to support such capability. And we are working to get it into one of the next releases.
http://pledge.mit.edu http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/AipPrototype http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/AssetStore Cheers, -Mark On Apr 11, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Ordway wrote: > > Is there a reason why only the metadata is stored in the database > and not > the actual assetstore bitstreams? Has anyone considered changing the > physical storage from the filesystem to the database? I'm working on > building some redundancy into my infrastructure and it's looking > like the > most efficient way to store the assetstore data in clustered > configurations > would be in the database, especially when your database is already > clustered > across multiple systems. Your database gets much larger, but you > don't have > to worry about keeping your assetstores synchronized, etc. > > Any thoughts? Anyone to blame? ;-) > > Ryan > > -- > Ryan Ordway E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unix Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OSU Libraries, Corvallis, OR 97370 Office: Valley Library #4657 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
