VALA2010 Session 10 Tennant

VALA20120Libraries at the network level: APIs, linked data, and cloud computing

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 10 – Looking Forward
Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-10-tennant

VALA2010 Invited PaperRoy Tennant

Senior Program Officer, OCLC, USA
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Abstract

Large Internet hubs like Google and Amazon have long used server farms and machine-to-machine services to reach massive scale and computational flexibility. Libraries are now beginning to take advantage of these same technologies by moving services to the “cloud”, where robust and secure infrastructure services can reduce the total cost of ownership of library systems. Libraries are also leveraging the network to expose library data and services to support powerful new ways to interact with library data to provide new kinds of services. This session will tell (and show) you how.

VALA2008 Plenary 6 Weibel

VALA2008 Keynote SpeakerMaking identifiers concrete (so library places and spaces don’t have to be)

Stuart WeibelVALA 2008 PLENARY 6: Stuart Weibel
Thursday 7 February 2008 15:40 – 17:00
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-plenary-6-weibel

Stuart Weibel

Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Programs and Research, USA
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Libraries are about the persistence of culture, and social networks are about fluid group behaviour. Mixing these idioms will allow users to swim in the social currents of peers, all the while embedded in the aggregated, organised wisdom fixed in the treasures of social heritage — and maybe enrich those treasures into the bargain. Achieving this vision requires systems of Web-scale standards and protocols on the one hand, and the participation of users that social networking applications promise on the other. The delivery of library services into such an environment requires rigorous notions of identity – of users, library assets, and of the shared context and content that emerge from their interaction. Dr. Weibel will share his personal view of how a better identifier architec ture will help us integrate these seemingly disparate worlds.

 

VALA2008 Session 12 Murray

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperBuilding Web scale for libraries

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: ILMS
Thursday 7 February 2008 10:45 – 11:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-12-murray

Robin Murray

Vice President, Global Product Management, OCLC
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Abstract

Picture a virtual city of key internet payers. Google has a main street address as do Yahoo! and MSN, but where do libraries reside? Change is afoot based on a need from libraries and suppliers alike to reduce redundancy and generate what we define as Web scale services. This paper explores what we mean by Web scale and how libraries can achieve it.