Peertube instance willing to host scientific video data? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by Temperche@slrpnk.net to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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Hi @ll, a friend of mine is a scientist and has written many papers. Each of these papers has a lot of underlying video data (which show each experiment in detail). For example, one paper is easily 200 GB of video data. Now, my friend is looking for a free public archive to make this data publicly available, also for archiving purposes. The best recommendations he has received was to upload everything to Youtube, but I said - don't. I would like to recommend him a PeerTube instance for that but I have no clue which instance would agree to that much video data for archiving purposes. Might you have an idea? Peace out, T

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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

That is a lot of data. Can it be compressed at all? Can they not self-host it?

[-] jaypatelani@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Only option is youtube which also has video size limit to 256GB per file

[-] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Most universities have data repositories for such material. I can see why uploading to PeerTube might be interesting in addition.

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