Dorothea, Concerning current work in the Bitstream type area of DSpace development, I presented at Open Repositories 08 ( http:// pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/127/ ) on Larry Stone's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) work, which greatly enhances DSpace's ability to handle and potentially disseminate file-types of various non-standard form.
For more information on this work, see the extensive documentation here: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/BitstreamFormat_Renovation -- sands fish Software Engineer MIT Libraries Technology Research & Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] E25-131 On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Dorothea Salo wrote: > I know I'm seriously late on last week's chat summary; it's on my > to-do list for today. Sorry about that! > > This week's question has to do with bitstreams. DSpace is designed > around discrete papers contained within single bitstreams, and it also > handles websites reasonably well. The question is: what else do you > have, what have you done with/to DSpace to accommodate it, and what > else do you need from DSpace? > > Bram de Luyten asks: "Would you recommend DSpace to an organization > with needs to use it as a repository for very specific filetypes, > different from standard documents (for example, audio or video > repository ...) ? Why (not) ? And what if they want to store "many > different things" ?" > > I'm feeling laissez-faire this week, and this is something of an > additive question, so go ahead and read other folks' answers before > adding your own. > > Dorothea > > -- > Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw > University of Wisconsin > Rm 218, Memorial Library > (608) 262-5493 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > 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 > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech