Thanks all, most useful.
Have had a few suggestions from Twitter too which I'll follow up.
This seems a pretty common workflow to me: scan > save to Dropbox > put
on web - so wondering if there is something we could write/repurpose
that'd help facilitate the journey...
Will keep you posted
Mike
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James Morley wrote:
> Hi Mike
>
> We have quite a nifty integration with Dropbox in our sites (like http://labs.europeana.eu) that are running on the Bolt platform.
>
> I suspect it's too customised to be of much use, but there's some code at https://github.com/europeana/Europeana-Labs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=dropbox (which seems to be a helper written by this guy - https://github.com/rossriley?tab=repositories)
>
> I can hopefully put you in touch with someone at Bolt who can explain how it works though, if you're interested.
>
> Cheers, James
>
>
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> Subject: Serving images from or via Dropbox
>
> Hi all
>
> Question: are any of you serving your (collection) images direct from
> Dropbox..?
>
> Or: do you have a nifty way of syncing between Dropbox and your web
> hosting? (Preferably a way which isn't "use sync software on my desktop"
> but something server-side which spots file changes and SSH's them up to
> hosting or similar)
>
> My assumption would be that direct serving is kind of risky - all it
> takes is someone to delete a file or Dropbox to get gnarly about their
> bandwidth limits or X other thing to change and your site is full of
> broken images. But I've yet to find a solid looking solution for the
> sync option, short of running GoodSync on my Mac - which is an obvious
> weakpoint in the chain..
>
> I want to leave Dropbox in the equation because it's so obviously a
> great way of people to digitise and share images internally. Just the
> web-side bit which is leaving me a bit stumped.
>
> Thoughts...?
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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