datahoarder

6841 readers

1 users here now

Who are we?

We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.

-- 5-4-3-2-1-bang from this thread

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

archivist@lemmy.ml

Publicly hosting data? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 500PuzzlePieces@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hey everyone,

I'm reaching out because I could use some help or guidance here. So, I kinda ended up being the go-to person for collecting and storing data in a project I'm involved in with my team. We've got a bunch of data, like tens of thousands of files, and we're using nextcloud to make it accessible to our users. The thing is, we're facing a bit of a challenge with the search function on nextcloud when accessed through a public link. Being that there isn't a search function. While we really appreciate the features it offers from an administrative standpoint, it's not working that well for our users.

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or resources that could point us in the right direction for this project? It would be super awesome if it's something open-source and privacy retaining. 😄

Thanks a bunch in advance!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] 500PuzzlePieces@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for this! I have sent this suggestion off to our web wizard it looks extremely promising, we had wanted to attempt something like this but couldn't find a foot hold to get started!

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Good luck! And don't get stuck on the software I use, you may find something else that is better suited for your type of data. Like if your content is wrapped up in PDFs or some kind of zipped files then the best solution is one that can peer into those files to give search hits on the given text. Of course if your content is already fairly plan text then pretty much any solution would work.