If you're saying that you're setting up a system where images you don't want to be public are on a public server, you can be sure they will get out sooner or later. Probably more or less immediately, especially if you're not black belts in robots.txt fu. What is this system?
-- Matt Morgan m...@concretecomputing.com On Fri, May 1, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Emily Beliveau wrote: > Hi Sina, > > The way we're planning it, the media server will double as a storage > repository for all our media assets (masters and associated derivatives) so > everything will be in the same place in a predictable folder structure. We > only want to make some of the high-res images available for viewing or > download due to copyright. We could folder should-not-publish images > separately so they are not web accessible and can't be accessed by guessing > the URL, but in our current setup this would require manually moving files > around between web-accessible and non-web-accessible folders, and splitting > up the image sets for particular objects. Surely there is a better way, I'm > just hoping to find one that we can implement within the constraints of our > current IT environment, budget, and staff allocation. > > (I'm guessing this is a very junior-varsity question for the MCN group, but > this is where we are.) > > Emily. > > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:31 AM Sina Bahram <s...@sinabahram.com> wrote: > > > 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 <mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu> On Behalf Of Emily Beliveau > > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 11:22 AM > > To: mcn-l@mcn.edu > > 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: mcn-l@mcn.edu > > > > 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/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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: mcn-l@mcn.edu > > > > 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/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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: mcn-l@mcn.edu > > 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/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ > _______________________________________________ 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: mcn-l@mcn.edu 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/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
