It would be pennies a month to put this on AWS S3. Infrequent access service runs $0.0125 per GB/mo. Transfer charges would be inconsequential. Thanks, Cary On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:53 AM Terry Brady <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > At the most recent DSpace developer meeting, we discussed the need to share > meaningful test data resources for system testing. > > We have created a workflow to publish Docker images for each active branch > of the project. As folks begin to make use of these images, it would be > good to offer a standard set of test data to ingest into new instances of > the software. > > A DSpace instance can be populated from AIP files which contain user > information, hierarchy information, metadata, and digital assets. Based on > some existing test resources, I presume that these test data sets could be > as large as 1-2 GB. Eventually, I could imagine dozens to a couple hundred > developers making use of these assets. > > There are a dozen ways that we could distribute these assets. > > At a minimum, I am confident that we could find a place to store a static > set of assets at a published URL. > > Ideally, I would like for project contributors to have shared ownership of > these assets just like there is shared ownership of code files on GitHub. > > Looking at GitHub help files, it sounds like a GitHub repo is not suitable > for distributing files of this size. > https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-large-files/ Apparently, > GitHub offers some solution in this area, but I have not compared their > pricing with other services. > > Are you aware of any projects that have implemented a good solution for > sharing and collaborating on large (1-2 GB) test data files? Are you aware > of any tools or services that might be helpful? > > Thanks, Terry > > -- > Terry Brady > Applications Programmer Analyst > Georgetown University Library Information Technology > https://github.com/terrywbrady/info > 425-298-5498 (Seattle, WA) > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com