On 18 Sep 2008, at 10:45, Vincent Kelly wrote:
> Dear Nick,
>
> I will give you an honest answer re: Local Authorities allowing data
> to be
> held elsewhere. From
> experience it has been incredibly difficult to do anything like you
> suggest, even hosting our website
> outside of the Council has been fraught at times. I think there is
> (from
> my point of view) a huge
> cultural chasm between 'out there' and Local Authority organisational
> culture.
>
> I think it would be a hard slog to do what you suggest, and may not
> be a
> one stop shop solution
> as intended.
I'm curious as to why you need such a huge master file on the server?
and if it is essential, why not keep the master files locally (on
networks within the LA) and then use web friendly sized assets for
every other purpose?
the transfer time to back-up 2100 50mb files to 'the cloud'' would be
an issue even if the hosting cost were not.
My thinking is that digital masters should not be network accessible
in any case, and surrogates should be created from the masters for
browsing, sharing and suchlike.
using smaller images in whatever management system you have makes more
sense to me.
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