Julie Thanks, I appreciate the comment, we're going to stay with our permanent store, but during ingest we'll take a thumbnail of each image and store that within FC, along with an MD5 checksum of the original image.
Phil On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 11:03 +0100, Julie Allinson wrote: > Hi Phil, > > We've been thinking about the same issue here at York and are > considering storing small images as Managed Content within Fedora, with > larger images stored externally as 'Externally Referenced Content'. So > long as you are confident about the security and integrity of the your > storage, and the persistence of your links, I don't think there's > anything to be gained from managing larger files within Fedora. Indeed, > from experiments with migrating Fedora objects, we found it much easier > to migrate smaller objects whilst maintaining links to the larger files. > > Best, > > Julie > > Phil Cryer wrote: > > We're going back and forth on this one, and it's less of a technical > > question, and more of an organizational one. We have our collection of > > images being served up on a system currently, we want to add Fedora into > > the mix to get the metadata from the SQL server, create the DC for the > > object and all the associated paths for where the obj lives, it's > > identifiable URL, etc., in as datastreams so Fedora knows everything > > about the obj. The current system knows which server houses the images, > > and the paths to said images which will remain constant, so Fedora knows > > all of this as well, plus the image server is backed up, so multiple > > copies of the images are already available . > > > > So, our question is, do we want to ingest the actual images into Fedora > > as well? If we do we'll have another copy of each image in Fedora, but > > we already have multiple copies, so what do we gain with that? > > > > Advice, opinions welcome. > > > > P > > > > -- Phil Cryer | Open Source Development | Missouri Botanical Garden www: http://mobot.org | latitude, longitude: 38.613877, -90.257943 email: phildotcryeratmobotdotorg | im googletalk/skype: phil.cryer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=/ _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
