Last week, I updated our DSpace from 1.8.2 to 4.1 without many (any?) issues. Kudos to everyone on this list that worked on the DSpace 4.x releases, whether as a developer, contributor, tester, or whatever. Your efforts are appreciated!
I'm wondering how to do something that seems pretty simple and can't find any leads in the DSpace docs or wiki on how to do it. I would like to provide a hyperlink from a DSpace object's page (we are using JSPUI) to an external location to showcase that object's bitstream using technology not associated with DSpace. For example, I've got high-resolution images saved as objects in DSpace, so that the lossless TIFF (huge) and lossy JPEG (much smaller) are available in DSpace, complete with lovely DC metadata. I've now got a Djatoka server running with OpenSeaDragon as a viewer, and many of these large images can be viewed on the external Djatoka server using a custom URL for that image. I want to link to that external URL from within the DSpace JSPUI object page in the simplest way possible, without modifying DSpace code. Is this possible? I know that this may be bad form for a repository, but I'm not interested in modifying the JSPUI template pages to load the Javascript viewer on the page or anything like that. I'm willing to store the URL to the zoomable viewer in the object's metadata, which of course I can do now in DC but it doesn't create a hyperlink; the user needs to copy/paste the URL to get to the zoomable viewer. I just need a simple link from the object page, and if that link stops working in the future, that's OK. I can remove it at that time. The bitstreams are the most important thing, but the user would get the most use out of the simple, zoomable, external URL. Does anyone have any advice for me? Again, I'm interested in the simplest, easiest way to do this link, one with the least number of changes to the DSpace source code. Thanks in advance for any ideas! -- Stacy Pennington Information Technology Services Rhodes College 901-843-3968 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
