I've released the first coherent draft of a proposal on a complete renovation of the BitstreamFormat class and associated infrastructure. It is on the wiki at:
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/BitstreamFormat_Renovation Also see the manifesto page if you want some background on the issues: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/About_Data_Formats It's a very long page, so please use the "Discussion" tab (Talk: page) for comments so they don't get lost in the text. I'm planning to implement this proposal as part of the FACADE (see http://facade.mit.edu/) project as the basis for improved digital preservation tools. It will be targeted at Release 1.6. If you are concerned about preservation, or just data format identification and Bitstream technical metadata, I hope you'll read these pages and I look forward to your comments. -- Larry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
