I have an unusual scenario where the GLAM might make images available either under a one-shot deal where the source website might vanish after upload (possible a transient FTP share) or where I am allowed to systematically use high resolution links that are not normally directly declared but only passed on after CAPTCHA checks that the requester is human. In part, the CAPTCHA is in place to avoid having bots bring down their servers with a flood of requests; there seems to be little in the way of automated throttling to handle these events.
Can we have the option of not saving the link-to-media-file in the metadata on the image page? I could remove it with a post-upload bot, however it would remain in the history and therefore be potentially data-mine-able.
The link would effectively be replaced by a link to the catalogue page, where a user can navigate to the same high-resolution file after passing the CAPTCHA.
Fae
i can put in an option for it. do you mind opening a bug as an new feature request for it.
possible implementation:
√ check box below the mapping drop downs, near the category or licensing options, to indicate that you want the url to be present; default would be checked; uncheck it if you don't want it.
with kind regards, dan
On Jun 24, 2014, at 11:44 , Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
I have an unusual scenario where the GLAM might make images available either under a one-shot deal where the source website might vanish after upload (possible a transient FTP share) or where I am allowed to systematically use high resolution links that are not normally directly declared but only passed on after CAPTCHA checks that the requester is human. In part, the CAPTCHA is in place to avoid having bots bring down their servers with a flood of requests; there seems to be little in the way of automated throttling to handle these events.
Can we have the option of not saving the link-to-media-file in the metadata on the image page? I could remove it with a post-upload bot, however it would remain in the history and therefore be potentially data-mine-able.
The link would effectively be replaced by a link to the catalogue page, where a user can navigate to the same high-resolution file after passing the CAPTCHA.
Fae
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