On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > You can definitely have Blacklight handle the display while still keeping the > EAD out of solr stored fields. There's no reason Blacklight can't fetch the > EAD from some external store, keyed by Solr document ID (or by some other > value in a solr document stored field). That's my current thinking (informed > by y'alls experience) of how I'm going to handle future large object stuff in > BL, if/when I get around to developing it.
I've wanted to try an approach similar to how paperclip [1] works where a filesystem storage location is chosen that survives between deployments when using something like Capistrano. Using the filesystem would allow the EAD XML to be easily served up directly from the public directory. Jason [1] http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip
