Dropbox and other cloud storage connectors

[tomhigginsuom]

At the recent DataVault community event in Manchester if was mentioned that a Dropbox connector might help to demonstrate the system (since these could be real user-accessible and viewable files).

This is something that has been mentioned in the past as desirable (since Dropbox is used heavily by researchers).

Connectors for similar cloud services might also be useful if they follow a similar flow.

A related concern: should file store plugins be more isolated from the "core" of the application?

[stuartlewis]

Should we also write a browser upload file store plugin? Whilst dropbox and active datastore are good examples of sources, it's highly likely that sometimes browser upload might also be required. Should we do this too?

Assuming there are multiple sources, what's the best UI option for this? Perhaps multiple 'Deposit' buttons on a vault home page? 'Deposit from DataStore', 'Deposit from DropBox', 'Deposit from Browser' etc?