Looking for web-hosting

[Aidan Wilson]

I'm tempted to say that no such archive exists that has the level of web 
presence and access to data that you're after, and no web hosting service in 
the world is going to be able to guarantee perpetual hosting of your data, and 
likely not other aspects of an archive either.

So I would side with Claire, and suggest looking into each one independently, 
opting for the best of each, rather than trying to find a solution that's 'good 
enough' and does both.

Web hosting doesn't have quite the same restrictions on data as archiving, so 
satisfying an archive's requirements first is probably a good move, and then 
looking into how you can copy that data to a web hosting service (likely 
down-sampling the files to mp3, etc.) will be relatively easy.

Start by looking for an archive at http://www.language-archives.org/

-Aidan Wilson



On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, s.t. bischoff wrote:

> Good points Claire. It would seem if the directory that allows for a web
> interface where maintained in the "spirit" of an archive (e.g. following
> some form of community derived best practices with a commitment to
> permanence) then web publication could have the permanence that archiving
> strives for. Such an approach would be an alternative (or perhaps first step
> to archiving) for communities not ready, willing, or able to place their
> language resources in the hands of third parties, yet wanting to ensure some
> sort of permanence for the resources. The ideal situation would be some
> combination of both perhaps:  archiving and community web publication that
> maintains each directory in terms of best practices with a commitment to
> permanence. It seems that even though the two are different in some
> regards--there is a good deal of overlap in terms of production,
> maintenance, and use. 
> 
> cheers,
> Shannon
> 
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>       Just a quick note that we seem to be talking about both
>       archiving and publication here, and perhaps we should be
>       thinking about them as two different things. They have different
>       requirements. For example, with sound files, we would want to
>       archive the highest quality files possible. But for web
>       streaming, that's not what we want. It makes it harder
>       to disperse materials to communities, but web publication
>       doesn't have he permanence that archiving should do. This would
>       be a good argument not to look for a single solution, but to
>       investigate digital archives *and* web dissemination. Claire 
> 
> 
> 
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