[Dspace-general] Re: Question from IEEE Spectrum article

[Tansley, Robert]

> I based the scenario on some planning that we did here at MIT 
> awhile back 
> on how we would want to handle multiple versions, either 
> because an author 
> deposited a new version or because a curator created one for 
> preservation 
> purposes. We would add the new version as a new bitstream on 
> the existing 
> DSpace item record, then change the UI to make it clear which 
> version is 
> preferred. This wouldn't be hard to do, but there are no 
> tools in DSpace 
> right now that do exactly this procedure.

Actually DSpace's Media Filter tool can already do the bare bones of
this -- in general it's used for auto-generating thumbnails and
extracting full-text for searching but these are essentially format
migrations.  It's far from perfect -- for example, there's no way to
realistically audit the migrations, and the process has to be managed by
a system administrator rather than an archival curator (at the moment,
those roles are pretty blurred).

 Robert TANSLEY / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs
  http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/