> Also, if you want to just have Google do the streaming for you, its very > easy, unless you're a lawyer. > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Document+Preview+with+Google+D > ocs+viewer
Moi? Not a lawyer. However, I am told there are some very near... Suffice to say, we can't go there. I hadn't thought of just setting up a page turner and skipping the large PDF. That's a great idea. Thanks for all the food for thought! --Hardy > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Dietz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:04 PM > To: Hilton Gibson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] anyone coding document streaming for DSpace > on their own? > > I've been working on making a Book Reader / Page Turner. It uses Open > Library's Book Reader software. > Screenshot at: > http://picasaweb.google.com/pdietz84/OSULibraries#5516829984952797698 > > It currently works with having multiple image bitstreams, we don't have > auto-generating images from PDF's yet. > > Lastly, have you considered using the XPDF media filter plugin, and > making large image thumbnails of each page of your PDF offline / at > filter-media time, and then just serving your PDF-THUMBNAILS bundle for > display? > > > Also, if you want to just have Google do the streaming for you, its very > easy, unless you're a lawyer. > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Document+Preview+with+Google+D > ocs+viewer > > > Peter Dietz > Systems Developer/Engineer > Ohio State University Libraries > > > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Hilton Gibson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Hardy > > Also check out: http://gettopup.com > Good for multimedia. > > > Cheers > > hg > > On 14/09/2010 18:20, Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote: > > > Hi, I thought I'd throw this question out here, and see what > comes back. We're looking at adding document streaming to our > repository, so that we can start migrating some large PDFs from our > digital library (which currently uses University of Michigan's DLXS and > its page-turning capabilities). I know @mire has a module that will do > this, but we're interested in keeping the streaming in-house (for a > variety of reasons). So, I thought I'd ask the list, is anyone looking > at adding document streaming/page turning capabilities to DSpace? Would > you be interested in collaborating? > > > > Right now we're looking at doing something with swftools.org's > pdf2swf, and Flexpaper, and are just starting to experiment. If anyone > out there is farther along with something similar, I'd love hear from > you. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > HARDY POTTINGER<[email protected]> > > University of Missouri Library Systems > > http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ > > "No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, > > turn back." --Turkish proverb > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > DSpace-tech mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
