A penny for your thoughts on the feasibility of configuring Google Drive as a DAMS; using the Google Drive API's to deliver images and associated data/metadata to modern Collection Management Systems and museum online databases?
https://developers.google.com/drive/web/integrate-open#open_and_convert_google_docs_in_your_app
Please don't worry about related issues such as the security aspects of cloud technology or cloud v self-hosted server issues, these are being addressed in a separate exercise, I'm really just interested in the theoretical ability for this to be achieved. Related issues I am concerned with include: IPTC metadata possibly being stripped when images are either uploaded to Google Drive or on their exit.
Tony Harris
Digital Media & Photography Officer
Government Art Collection
tony.harris @culture.gsi.gov.uk | 020 7580 9123
@govartcol /governmentartcollection | www.gac.culture.gov.uk
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