Large Storage Options Features
Digital Storage - Media
| Feature | Shared Shelf* | Academic Video Uploader |
Brightcove* | Flickr* | YouTube* |
| Metadata support | rich | none | rich | limited | limited |
| Discoverable | limited | limited | ✓ | limited | |
| Open Access support | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| DOI/permalink support | ✓ | ||||
| Supports custom filenames and folders | neither | both | neither | filenames only | filenames only |
| Best for... | any file type | video, audio | video, audio | images | video, audio |
| Limited or unlimited viewing permissions | both | limited | both | both | both |
| Shared authoring | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Fast large file uploading | with ITS assistance | ||||
| Exhibition options | ✓ | no | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streaming or download | streaming | streaming | streaming | download | streaming |
| Storage only | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Quota | by institution | 10 GB+ | by institution | ✓ | ✓ |
| URL or Embeddable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
* cloud/off premise hosted solution
Digital Storage - Data/datasets
While there is no technical limitation to storing media on these solutions, they are not designed specifically for media nor do they have featured designed for that purpose as in the solutions above.
| Feature | Dragon | GoogleDrive* | RStore* | WesScholar* |
| Metadata support | yes with developer tools | rich | ||
| Discoverable | limited | ✓ | ||
| Open Access support | ✓ | |||
| DOI/permalink support | ✓ | |||
| Supports custom filenames and folders | both | both | both | |
| Best for... | any file type | any file type | any file type | images, documents |
| Limited or unlimited viewing permissions | limited | both | limited | unlimited |
| Shared authoring | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Fast large file uploading | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Exhibition options | limited options with assistance | |||
| Streaming or download | download | download | download | download |
| Storage only | ✓ | can use with sites and other Google Apps | ✓ | no |
| Quota | 10 GB+ | ✓ | by institution | |
| URL or Embeddable | ✓ | ✓ |
* cloud/off premise hosted solution