[Dspace-general] DSpace and image Content Delivery Query

[Carl Jones]

Hi,

Is  anyone thinking about doing more work with the DSpace presentation 
layer to make it more user friendly for image content delivery, in 
particular for art images?

I've found a couple of DSpace sites with images, for example, the 
Australian National University, but there are probably more.

At present, by design, compared with tools such as CONTENTdm or 
ARTstor, DSpace lacks such features as support for metadata beyond 
Dublin Core, no "My Favorites" type virtual collections, side-by-side 
image comparisons, JPEG2000 support, etc.).

I understand DSpace 2.* will be more modular and may more easily allow 
working towards integrating these kinds of functionality.

Or are sites mostly contemplating using it as a back-end to some other 
system for handling images?

On a side-note, is anyone thinking about using it as a back-end 
repository for the Greenstone digital library software  
(www.greenstone.org) which now has Dspace import/export functionality?

I apologize  if this has been discussed already (I did do a quick 
search through the archives).

Thanks.

Carl


Carl Jones
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