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Find server storage space for media assets #4

Open ss4ws opened 6 years ago

ss4ws commented 6 years ago

Github limits the size of media files to 100MB. We have media files bigger than that. Host all the media files (images video audio) to Box at UVa and link them from there is one thought. Other ideas?

walshbr commented 6 years ago

Are you trying to embed them? just link to them? If the latter, Box is probably easiest. If the former, you could check out https://git-lfs.github.com/. But I'm in favor of keeping it easier and simpler.

ss4ws commented 6 years ago

Another option (safer for the long term) would be internet archive (https://archive.org/). Here are their file size limits:
movies 4.2M
audio 4.1M image 3.1M

walshbr commented 6 years ago

Does IA allow you to upload copyrighted media that you don't own the rights to? Also worth keeping in mind that internet archive could also go dark. Worth having a conversation about the longterm sustainability of the project (or any project really). Digital projects rarely live forever, nor should they. Nor will the historic spaces remain the same? What if the Berlin wall fragment is removed in the next couple years or one of the buildings you

jeremyboggs commented 6 years ago

@shane-et-al Assigning you, since you worked with Git's LFS for Salem. Wonder if that's applicable here? Or should we use something else?