Hi Emily, Just a high-level question, if I may, but if the resources are available for download, then is there a problem with having them be downloaded not through your search page? This seems like a feature, not a bug, IMHO.
Take care, Sina President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc. Phone: 919-345-3832 https://www.PAC.bz Twitter: @SinaBahram Personal Website: https://www.sinabahram.com -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Emily Beliveau Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 11:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MCN-L] Guessable web URLs Hi all (and attn: DAM and IP SIG members particularly) We are setting up a new media server that will allow us to provide high-res image downloads via our collections search site for the first time (previously only small derivatives were web-accessible and our .tifs were stored elsewhere). We can control the publish-to-web status of each level of image derivative with our collections management system, but since all the high-resolution files will be on the same server, the URLs for all images (regardless of rights/publish status) will be guessable. How is this commonly handled? For context, we do not have a DAMS and manage all our files in folders manually. We currently have ~80K image assets. I'd like to understand our options and whether the community views this as an issue or not. Thanks, Emily. *--* *Emily Beliveau* Collections Management Advisor (Humanities) University of Alberta Museums Ring House 1, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1 T: 780-492-0776 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: [email protected] To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: [email protected] To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
