There was an annoucement release for SirsiDynix Docutek ERes on Friday, version 5.6.
The two features most emphasized by Talin Bingham, CTO of SirsiDynix, in the release are streaming media support and encyrpted cookies. This is the key sentence on the streaming media support: "Each audio or video file can be designated to allow downloading or be restricted to streaming via the built in streaming media player." With this built-in support, undoubtedly some libraries will be free to either drop licensing for an existing streaming program or to begin serving AV content to its user community. Cookie encrption offers additional security for user authentication data.
My institution has been pretty aggressive in implementing ERes upgrades (taking advantages of the new features and dealing with some minor problems from early adoption), and I'm hoping to apply ERes 5.6 very soon. As with recent upgrades (like the 5.5.x level, SirsiDynix has done a good job in documenting and publicizing this release.
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