your computation goes to where your data is, not the other way around. Alistair Croll, Big business for big data, O’Reilly radar, 21 September 2010 They’re now called apps, after a certain other initiative; they were called plugins. As the KeepIt project moves towards its close, this is the story of …
KeepIt course module 4, Southampton, 18-19 March 2010 Tools this module: Plato, EPrints preservation apps Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 4, the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 4 (source files) In this session of KeepIt course 4 we will use EPrints preservation apps …
Twitter RT @llordllama: The challenge is not cloud computing but cloud thinking I didn’t go to the JISC-Eduserv meeting on Repositories and the Cloud (23 February 2010), but here is my take anyway, based on selected entries from the tagged Twitterstream for this event (#repcloud), presented in chronological order (and with …
When we talk about digital preservation or institutional repositories, not everyone has the same perspective, or the same terminology, for the work we are engaged in. For example, the institutional repository will have to work with people from all parts of the institution, including IT, data centre, legal, etc. staff. …
Yesterday Dave Tarrant from KeepIt was speaking at the latest Sun PASIG meeting in Malta (#pasig on Twitter). Chris Rusbridge, head of DCC, was tweeting from the event all day and had this to say about Dave’s presentation: Tarrant at 90 mph getting ePrints 3.2 data directly into a couple …
One view of digital preservation is it is the management of risk. A component of preservation is storage, and there are an increasing range of storage options. This is why EPrints repository software, following work in the Preserv 2 and KeepIt projects, has developed a repository storage controller and a …