[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Image hosting for Aspace

Mon Feb 24 16:40:38 EST 2020

We purchased a Dreamhost domain that serves a couple of purposes; I store our EAD finding aids there so that they can be harvested by an external site and our media librarian uses it to hold video files that we link to in ContentDM (cheaper than storing with OCLC). Before we got ContentDM, I also used Dreamhost to store the photos I wanted to link in ArchivesSpace.  It's inexpensive, has unlimited storage, and has a web FTP.  So, adding photos is pretty much drag and drop.  Then, you grab the web address for the image and plug it back into ASpace.  It worked pretty well.  We don't have an actual website built, it's just a directory of stored files that isn't visible to the public.

Not suggesting this is the best solution...it's just the one we came up with!

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Digital Archivist | Rock Resource Center
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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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On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:32 PM Nic Stanton-Roark <ndroark at anderson.edu<mailto: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.

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On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:16 AM Thomas San Filippo <sanfilippo_thomas at wheatoncollege.edu<mailto: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.

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