S3 has been the leader among our options in our preliminary discussions. Jason, I think any sort of documentation you'd be willing to put together would be phenomenal, thank you for offering!
-Mark Armstrong Archivist, Wheaton College Norton MA On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:54 PM Jason Loeffler <[email protected]> wrote: > Amazon S3 has the least friction by far, most resiliency and security, and > gives you options down the road should you need to extend your service copy > functionality, make your assets portable, or migrate to a repository > implementation. Steps include creating an S3 bucket on AWS, set up a secure > FTP connection to move files to the bucket, and configure/harden > permissions properly. Just make sure you 1) have some sense of the volume > of files (measured in multipes of bytes) beforehand as it is a metered > service and 2) exert some control over which parties in your organization > have access to the bucket. This has come up enough on the forum to warrant > unofficial high-level documentation for non-techinical administrators. If > there's demand, I can pull something together. > > -- > Jason Loeffler > Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc. > 20 Jay Street > Suite 1001 > Brooklyn, New York 11201 > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:32 PM Nic Stanton-Roark <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thomas, >> >> Having looked into flickr a bit, I don't think it's a usable option, at >> least not for the kind of direct hosting we wanted to use it for. They >> actively discourage direct linking to the image unless a link to the >> photopage on their domain is provided as well, and if they discover that >> users are backdooring the process they consider it a violation of the TOS >> and may deactivate your account. >> >> I think we'll continue using Omeka, but I wish we had a quicker, messier >> option for bulk uploads that don't need metadata associated with the >> photos. >> >> >> *Nicholas Stanton-Roark* | Archivist | Robert A. Nicholson University >> Library >> Anderson University | 1100 E. Fifth St, Anderson, IN 46012 >> (765) 641-4285 <%28765%29%20641%204285> | [email protected] >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:16 AM Thomas San Filippo < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We have the same question. We've considered Flickr, Amazon S3, ArtSTOR, >>> our digital repository. >>> >>> What are other folks using? >>> >>> >>> *Thomas San Filippo* >>> *Systems and Educational Technology Liaison* >>> >>> Pronouns: he/him/his; they/them/their(s) >>> >>> Madeleine Clark Wallace Library >>> <https://wheatoncollege.edu/academics/library/>, G34 >>> Wheaton College <https://wheatoncollege.edu> >>> 26 E. Main Street, Norton, MA 02766 <https://goo.gl/maps/d5JvoKZUEXy> >>> (508) 286-5601 <+15082865601> >>> Twitter: @WallaceLibrary <https://twitter.com/WallaceLibrary> | >>> Instagram: /wallacelibrary <https://www.instagram.com/wallacelibrary/> >>> | Facebook: wheatoncollege <https://www.facebook.com/WheatonCollege/> >>> On 2/21/20 9:50 AM, Nic Stanton-Roark wrote: >>> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> We have a gallery collection that is going to use Aspace to catalog >>> their display collections. >>> >>> One thing they need is an embedded thumbnail image of each object. I >>> know how to use extptr tags in notes to embed images hosted elsewhere, but >>> am looking for advice on where to easily host images that need to be >>> referenced but do not need any kind of metadata or description for the >>> images themselves. They would be used only for illustrative purposes in >>> Aspace itself. This is work that will be done in repetitive fashion by >>> iterations of short-term interns, student workers, etc, so it just needs to >>> be straight forward. >>> >>> Thanks for any suggestions or examples. >>> >>> >>> *Nicholas Stanton-Roark* | Archivist | Robert A. Nicholson >>> University Library >>> Anderson University | 1100 E. Fifth St, Anderson, IN 46012 >>> (765) 641-4285 <%28765%29%20641%204285> | [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Archivesspace_Users_Group mailing >>> [email protected]http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Archivesspace_Users_Group mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Archivesspace_Users_Group mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group >> > _______________________________________________ > Archivesspace_Users_Group mailing list > [email protected] > http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group > -- Pronouns: he, him, his "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges
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