[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Image hosting for Aspace

[Jason Loeffler]

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.

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Jason Loeffler
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:32 PM Nic Stanton-Roark <ndroark at anderson.edu>
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
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>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:16 AM Thomas San Filippo <
> sanfilippo_thomas at wheatoncollege.edu> wrote:
>
>> We have the same question. We've considered Flickr, Amazon S3, ArtSTOR,
>> our digital repository.
>>
>> What are other folks using?
>>
>>
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>> 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>  |  ndroark at anderson.edu
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