I've said this before, and I have to say it again due to my philosophical outlook on the issue:
Using a repository record to link to an item stored elsewhere is a tactic that will continue to cause more difficulties in digital preservation. When the record and the item are stored separately, there is no actual structural bond keeping them permanently together whatsoever, and any number of things can cause the link to fail and the record to be useless. As a secondary resource, an item on a streaming server makes sense. It can be used to provide a fast-access copy to users for preview or viewing, and the primary bistream can still be the video file. There is really no reason to not include it, and simply use a link in another metadata field or description to provide a streaming version. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Scott Phillips wrote: > > One strategy you may want to adopt, is to include a reference to a > steaming sever in your items metadata. Then have your theme display > that link as the file to download. This way you can separate all re > technology you need to run a proper streaming sever from your > repositry which doesnt have any support. > > Scott-- > > On Apr 2, 2008, at 14:30, "Mark H. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Unless these videos are extremely short, that would involve adding a >> second content delivery model to DSpace. Users aren't going to be >> satisfied to sit and wait while their browsers download 5GB of video >> content before starting to play it. >> >> I've experimented with storing a simple SMIL document as the item's >> primary bitstream, and having that point to a streaming server which >> supplies the actual video. The problem I ran into is that SMIL >> support in popular browsers was poor to nonexistent at that time. I >> haven't retested for a while, so the situation may have improved. >> >> -- >> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" >> he >> means the exact opposite. >> >> --- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >> It's the best place to buy or sell services for >> just about anything Open Source. >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace >> _______________________________________________ >> DSpace-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
