[Dspace-general] Week 4: Bitstream types (Dorothea Salo)

[Dorothea Salo]

> I don't think we want it to
> be automatic.  Some of us have a desire to archive both (say) the raw
> MPEG-2 data for the sake of never losing anything, and a properly edited,
> well-engineered, scaled and compressed version for daily use.

As a rule, I would want anything that changes a bitstream without
human intervention to be non-destructive. I can see where that might
become obnoxious from a storage standpoint, though, especially with
video.

Dorothea

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