[Clipart] upload ist failing

Bryce Harrington bryce at bryceharrington.com
Fri Jul 22 18:38:34 PDT 2005


On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:21:02PM -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <jonadab at bright.net> writes:
> 
> > Hmm...  How are the 0.0 K ones different from the others?
> > 
> > I have a hunch about this, but I'm going to have to look at the upload
> > log to be sure -- the new log, from *since* the Metadata.pm upgrade.
> > I'm scp'ing that down to my workstation now.
> 
> Man, if I knew last October what I know now, I would have said that
> embedding the metadata in the actual SVG images would be a lot of
> trouble and bug-prone and that we should use separate .rdf files like
> we have to do anyway for all the non-XML filetypes.

Interesting, I took this approach with DMS; sounds like we should stick
with this mechanism in general.  I think we could do a "late binding" of
the metadata, keeping the original svg around as submitted.  That way if
the metadata update scripts fail, we can go back to the source and
resolve it.

Bryce



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