This is a great suggestion! I was wandering about the performance as well but with this I can probably make the conversion with a crontab when the server is not very busy.
Thank you very much Peter and helix84 you have been of great help. I'll be back with my solution once I finish implementing it. Cheers! On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 21:17 +0200, helix84 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:26 PM, David <david.satiri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree with you, making a new bundle to store the previews is tricky > > and very likely unnecessary I was just following (or trying to follow) > > the media filter's patterns. > > Hi David, > > Peter's suggestion looks straightforward, but I'm wondering if you > really want to generate the images on the fly instead of storing > them. I'd say storing them is still preferable for performance reasons > - only, as you said, media filter isn't the right tool for the job. If > you wish to look at a more flexible alternative, there are curation > tools [1] which let you to any operation on any item, community, > collection or the whole site. These could be used to generate the > thumbnails and store it into your own bundle. The curation tasks are > not even required to be Java classes, they can be in Jython [2], > Groovy or JRuby. > > [1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/Curation+System > [2] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/Curation+tasks+in+Jython > > > Regards, > ~~helix84 > > Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
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