Carlos

Various small changes since May.
OK, yeah the performance issue should be resolved. Basically, the thumbnail service (viewers/image/thumbnail/) caches all these thumbnails, so it should be even faster than reading from fedora. If a thumbnail hasn't been cached yet, it reads from the fedora datastream. If the thumbnail datastream doesn't even exist yet, it'll generate a thumbnail on-the-fly, cache it, and kick off a job to save the new thumbnail to fedora. Let me know if you have any performance issues with the thumbnail service, though.

The thumbnail service also has the advantage of being the approved way to get thumbnails from the BDR. If we changed something behind the scenes, like the name of the thumbnail datastream, or removed access to fedora altogether, the thumbnail service would be updated and your site would keep working.