[Dspace-general] Question from IEEE Spectrum article

[Peter Urban]

In the July 2005, IEEE Spectrum article, MacKenzie states the
following...

"...The curator then runs a query in DSpace to find all the PDF files in
the archive, acquires or creates a program to automatically convert PDFs
into PDGs, and runs the conversion." ... "Both PDF and PDG versions are
then stored in the archive in case someone questions the conversion and
wants to see the original PDF bits. The PDG version is now the version
that appears first in the DSpace Web interface for access purposes, and
the researchers looking at the article never need to know that the
article has been converted from one format to another-it looks exactly
as it used to, thanks to DSpace and its curators."
 
Can you explain how/where both versions are stored in the archive? Are
the new PDG files added as new bitstreams to the same items? How does
the PDG version appear first in the DSpace Web interface?
 
P.S. Good article!


Peter Urban
Kristine Fallon Associates, Inc.
Digital Archive for Architecture System
The Art Institute of Chicago
purban at kfa-inc.com