Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:21:48 -0600 From: russhanson <russhanson@grantsburgtelcom.net> Subject: Re: Google Photos Message-ID: <aa96da207f3bf8d7b55ae9028b856576@grantsburgtelcom.net>
On 2020-02-10 21:50, B Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone used or use Google Photos for storing or backup of
> historical photos and video? I volunteer for a small museum and was
> looking over options, google photo or another service like that VS. a
> cloud account like Microsoft for example.
>
> B Schneider
>
>> COLLECTING, PRESERVING AND SHARING STORIES SINCE 1846 [1]
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> Links:
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> [1]
> http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/?utm_source=Email%20Signatures&amp;amp%3Butm_medium=email&amp;amp%3Butm_campaign=si
There are two google storage routes that you can use. Google photos is
sort of for your personal photos and movies and has some nice features
for that, and is free if you let them compress the images somewhat. I
like it for my own personal stuff, but not for archives or for sharing
stuff. It has a smart feature called "lens" that understands some of
what is in your photos including face recognition, object recognition
(i.e. red tractors), and lets you play with some basic photo editing
etc. Do a search on google photos versus google drive and read the
differences. You can connect your camera or your camera files to sync
onto the google photos. Unlimited free storage if you accept the
compression, which is not a problem for website photos.
The second google storage is google drive and when you create a google
account you get 15gb free and you can buy more. I pay $99 per year for
2 terabytes (and have about 1/4 of it used now). You can store almost
any kind of file here and use it as archival backup and sharing.
One of the features I love is that it automatically does optical
character recognition on both printed text and handwriting and is
actually pretty good on finding words and names in old cursive written
records. I use that a great deal for the township records I am
scanning.
You can also share at file and folder level to individuals, groups, or
public etc. I share newsletters this way. I point the website to a
google drive shared folder where I drop in the newsletters in pdf form
with names that are meaningful.
You can make your google drive a website location too. I am doing
that for a local cemetery--free!!!
I have a few working directories on my computer where I have them
synced with the google drive so if I add, rename, move or whatever stuff
in those directories on my computer, they automatically do the same on
the google drive.
Both of these and other cloud drives really need to have decent
internet speed to make good use of them for the syncing activities. My
rural internet was not good enough until last summer I was upgraded to
optical fiber and paid ($130 per month) for reasonably high speed
internet. Before that I did the work in the museum where we had that
already.
If you would like more details or examples, send me a note at
riverroadrambler@gmail.com I am in TX vacationing and at the local
library where with the cloud drive have all of my research files
available and searchable! Great.
Russ Hanson
Sterling Eureka and Laketown Historical Society