[Dspace-general] Posted on behalf of Roberta Winjum

[MacKenzie Smith]

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Date: 	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:42:09 -0600
From: 	Roberta Winjum <roberta.winjum at vanderbilt.edu>
To: 	dspace general-owner at mit.edu


Hi all,

Our library is adding some podcasts to our DSpace repository. I 
think an important metadata element for a user to see is the 
duration of the podcast, i.e. minutes and seconds. Dublin Core puts 
this info into a field called "format.exent" but a format.extent 
field already exists that says how many bytes are in the file. And 
so, to display the duration in the DSpace Simple display, we end up 
displaying the number of bytes as well. This isn't especially 
essential info to the user, and I feel doesn't belong in the Simple 
display.

Have any DSpace communities out there dealt with this problem, and 
if so, how? Or does anyone have ideas for how to handle it?

Thanks,
Roberta

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Roberta J. Winjum
Assistant University Librarian
Technical Services
Vanderbilt University Library
419 21st Ave. South
Nashville, TN 37240
615-343-3826