Richard Rodgers wrote: > I do worry about opening door #1 [content rejection], > since taking assets as found seems pretty close to the bedrock > use-case for digital repositories - at least preservation-minded ones. > Well, that is an interesting argument! Now, if we look at assets 'as found' then they will [probably] be located in a users file system. That file system will already be enforcing a unique constraint on the names of files within a directory.
Now, in your example you had a user with two files that had the same name but located in different directories. Presumably there is implicit knowledge in the particular organisation of the file structure. And we are not taking it 'as found' because DSpace is forcing the user to throw away that organisation (and therefore any knowledge/information it implies) when attaching all those files to a single item. In terms of the sequence number, we assign a 'genuine unique id' to every bitstream that is ingested, and there is no reason why that id can't be used in place of the sequence number in the url in the case where disambiguation is necessary. There is nothing wrong with presenting a disambiguation page if a url is provided without that unique id, and where the filename can't uniquely resolve. There just isn't any need to use a sequence number in this way, and include it as part of the URL. What there is a need for is a way to define the order in which the bitstreams are presented for an item - which should be the job of a sequence number, but it isn't used for that. (Note that the above is true for the majority using the 80/20 rule. There may be some exceptional cases that doesn't fit into the above statements, but then they may not be serviced sufficiently by the existing use of sequence numbers either). G This email has been scanned by Postini. For more information please visit http://www.postini.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
