Hi Mark, I know of some institutions that is using something similiar (in particular, splitting PDFs by chapters and customized the DSpace code to make a hierarchy that suits their needs, see http://dml.cz/ ).
But in your case, I dare to question the benefit of splitting content to 1 page per item. DSpace 3.0 is already able to show relevant excerpt in Discovery search results, so that's one piece of puzzle you need. Then, PDFs can be streamed, so I'd be thinking about a solution that gives you just the page you want in the whole file. I already once made a brief overview of such technologies that can be used for this in https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1021 , see https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Document+Viewer+Integration This is a feature many users want, so it will get into DSpace eventually. If you want to work with me on it, let me know, I'm interested in PDF streaming, too. I should be able to start looking into it after the New Year. Regarding limits, there are no limits imposed by DSpace itself, so it's mostly about how much hardware you can throw at it. But I don't think your instance is too large, there are larger instances out there. The assetstore hierarchy is already structured in a sane way that prevents a huge number of files in a single directory (which causes performance problems in most filesystems). Moreover, you can split up the archive over multiple assetstores if you need. Just remember that there's only one of tham that new items will be directed to. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
