> I guess I don't understand the problem. I thought we called that a > web browser. It either says, "oh, I know how to show that" and does > it, or "ah, you use Adobe Reader/OpenOffice/VLC/JMol/whatever for those, > I'll fire it up."
Hi, Mark, that approach works great for born-digital materials, and for anything that will load in a browser within a reasonable span of time. As the size of the object you are storing grows, you reach a point where downloading the entire object before you can use it becomes a problem. Additionally, if the content you are storing has previously been presented in way that provides instant access--say, in this case, a page turner in a digital library--users would have certain expectations of any future presentation of that material. They don't really care all that much about how the material is stored, but they care a great deal if the content isn't available with the same, or similar, level of usability. In addition to page turning, we're also interested in adding large-scale image viewing capabilities to DSpace. Something more akin to Google Maps (and many of the images we're wanting to store and display are in fact maps). Without a pan and zoom interface of some sort, it can be difficult to ascertain whether the image you're downloading is in fact the image you want to download. I think most of this still falls squarely in the realm of theme development, in DSpace terms. But it would be great to trade approaches with other DSpace users. I have the feeling a fair number of us are storing (or planning to do so) more "digital library" kinds of materials in our repositories. If there were a standardized way to enable, or facilitate, external viewing software, that would be a benefit to us all. --Hardy > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality > > I guess I don't understand the problem. I thought we called that a > web browser. It either says, "oh, I know how to show that" and does > it, or "ah, you use Adobe Reader/OpenOffice/VLC/JMol/whatever for those, > I'll fire it up." > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] > Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a > little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. > -- Ledford and Tyler, _Google Analytics 2.0_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
