As scholars are increasingly attracted to the possibilities of creating online resources, the question of hosting becomes more pressing. There are clear advantages to keeping projects in one place, but often institution-based solutions are too restrictive for experimental projects, and private web hosting companies offer some advantages but can be similarly inflexible. To answer this challenge, Emory’s Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) uses Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to develop, host and back-up web-based digital projects that are small in scale and experimental in nature. This presentation reports on some of the issues, challenges, and results of implementing the Amazon system. More information is available at
http://www.cni.org/topics/scholarly-communication/using-the-amazon-cloud-to-host-digital-scholarship-projects/
Previously released video from CNI's spring 2013 meeting:
-Taking Scholarly Note-taking to the Web (Michael Buckland & Ryan Shaw)
-RDF: Resource Description Failures & Linked Data Letdowns (Robert Sanderson)
-Hypothes.is: Annotating the World's Knowledge (Peter Brantley)
-Not Your Grandfather's Web Any More (David S.H. Rosenthal, Kris Carpenter Negulescu)
-Not Another Cross-Search Tool: The Digital Commons Network (JG Bankier, bepress)
-Publication and Research Roles for Libraries Using Spectral Imaging Data (Todd Grappone & Stephen Davison, UCLA)
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Discovery Turned Inside Out: Using schema.org & Google Site Search with Library Digital Collections (Will Sexton & Sean Aery)
-The Library Building as Research Platform (Antelman & York, NCSU)
-From the Version of Record to a Version of the Record (Herbert Van de Sompel)
-The Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey US 2012: First Release of Key Findings (Deanna Marcum & Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka S+R, and Judy Russell, U. of Florida)