Best practices for referencing files

[denisnazarov]

from marionzualo in slack

How can I publish things to the network? this section (https://github.com/mediachain/concat#publishing-statements) has some details on the topic but it seems to focus on metadata, but I could not find any "add file" command that would give me an IPFS style hash that then could be added to the metadata.

Can this happen as part of the data preparation process for now, i.e. we provide an optional out-of-band script that pins files to IPFS and adds references to your metadata.

[parkan]

This may or may not be easy in the near future, depending on our degree of IPFS interop. Right now the user can do this:

• ipfs add <file>
• manually set a key to the returned value
• import as normal

However, this will not generate valid IPLD, and I don't want to make people hand-roll the link keys. This also obviously won't pin the object elsewhere, and we are still at the whim of NAT traversal. Hmm. @yusefnapora any thoughts on this?