Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader

2011-04-26 Thread Peter Dietz
Sorry for my ignorance, I had no idea about the picasaButtonAPI. I definitely was only thinking webalbumsAPI. Very cool! Ok, so now the path (according to my interpretation) would be: picasaButton "Import to DSpace" -> Picasa Web Uploader Wizard/Dialog -> Sword Ingest into repo/collection. This s

Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader

2011-04-26 Thread Joseph
Peter, The ability to import from a remote source such as picasa or through adobe bridge could be pretty useful. Kind of like the way an ORE harvester works. I think you may be talking about the Web Albums Data API. Using that there would be a bit of duplication, unless you were harvesting someth

Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader

2011-04-25 Thread Peter Dietz
Hi, First off, I do agree that picasa is an awesome tool. I use it all the time for personal use. And syncing photos to your web gallery is super easy. Second, the picasaweb API is super easy to use, to re-purpose your photos, i.e. https://github.com/Cloudhaus/RailHaus/blob/master/app/views/event

Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader

2011-04-25 Thread Vibhaj Rajan
Hi Joseph, I also took the word deprecated to mean something developers usually take but from your notice, I agree that use of the API would be fine. Thanks for the wonderful idea about uploading from Picasa. Though I am not among the DSpace developers but only another student interested to contr

Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader

2011-04-25 Thread Joseph
Good Point Vibhaj. I noticed that it was deprecated, but the following disclaimer was on the project home page (http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/ ) "Note: The Picasa APIs will continue to function in existing and future versions of the Picasa client for the foreseeable future. However, these AP

Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader

2011-04-25 Thread Vibhaj Rajan
Hello Joseph, I found the Picasa API to be deprecated but the idea seems to be very much interesting. Making usage of DSpace easier to non-technical users was the aim of the Improve Submitter User Experience idea at GSoC this year. I think DSpace developers mentoring that project will have much to