On 18/02/11 12:52, David Tarrant wrote: > > On 18 Feb 2011, at 12:49, Ian Stuart wrote: > >> SWORD is a transport mechanism... we all understand that - but sword can >> either be a bling truck >> (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/307424194_ccb7df1246.jpg) or a >> container >> (http://www.shipping-container-modification.com/images/standard_large.jpg) > > and both are really expensive!!! The Shipping container is an un-patented design.... open access, if you like ;-)
> I think that, if you want to upload a package, don't expect to be able > to edit parts of the package. > > I feel if you want to edit using packages, then you delete the previous > version and upload a whole new package. > Supporting more features than that is going to be very hard in the > packaging scenario. The question still comes down to.... at some point, the client and the server need to exchange "metadata" and "files" - how is this negotiated and how is the data transferred? Even in your video, you are transferring a small set of metadata items from client to server. In your example, you control both ends of the link, so you know the fields to transfer. What happens when the objects get more complex, and you don't control both ends? Copying binary files is (relatively) easy.... copying sets of metadata from one system to another requires "packaging" "Packaging" is the area I'm interested in. -- Ian Stuart. Developer: Open Access Repository Junction and OpenDepot.org Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team, EDINA, The University of Edinburgh. http://edina.ac.uk/ This email was sent via the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Sword-app-techadvisorypanel mailing list Sword-app-techadvisorypanel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sword-app-techadvisorypanel
