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 Ordering assets will only be possible among the assets having the same original

Node types

The original and the asset will use different node types.

mgnl:asset

Has a property linking to the original.

Depending on the provider has a content node containing the binary data.

Can have any property on it representing its meta data.

mgnl:original

Identical to asset except it has no link to an original and does not keep meta data.

Potentially has a content node containing the binary data. Depends on the provider.

Additionally

Q: What is the id/name of an original? Is it important at all?

Q: How do we create a hierarchy of originals? We want to avoid a flat structure in JCRQ: In what ways does the original differ from the asset? Do we use the same node type?

We must remove the original when the last asset linking to it is removed

Future improvements

Reuse of content when asset and original is identical to reduce the size of the repository

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