A method of transforming a Datastream into a desired method of output. For example an image datastream might have a 'getThumbnail' disseminator which will return the image in a thumbnail size. Disseminators can also be used to transform XML via XSLT. See the fedora object model documentation for further detail here.

a component that associates a set of behaviors with an object so that clients can obtain different views of the object's content (datastreams)

an optional component used to extend the access points on the digital object

a type of republisher who circulates, sells, rents, or otherwise deals in the physical embodiment of defamatory matter contained in the material

an abstraction for packaging a set of service requests that release disseminations from a DigitalObject

One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.

someone who spreads the news