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Notes: DuraCloud Project Briefing - CNI Spring 2010

Created by Lida Larsen (EDUCAUSE) on April 19, 2010

CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

Spring 2010 Project Briefings

DuraCloud  (will be released Fall 2010 as a service )

http://duraspace.org/duracloud.php

·        Mediated cloud storage

·        Ready to use value-added services

·        Very simple

DuraCloud comes out of DuraSpace the result of a 2009 merger DSpace and Fedora.

(Three pilot partners each have ten terabytes data)

Use cases included:

·         Geographically distributed online backup

·         Bulk image conversation

·         Jpeg2000 serving/viewing

·         International replication

·         Streaming video

·         Access to corpus for processing

·         Ingest staging area

Taking Care of Your Career Discussion Session NOTES

Created by Lida Larsen (EDUCAUSE) on March 25, 2010

Here is a recap of the Taking Care of Your Career discussion session led by Greg Anderson from the University of Chicago. The notes are from Ron McGettrick - - Thanks, Ron for providing these for the MWRC10 proceedings.

There are some great take-aways from this discussion and I've included a link to the professional development plan document.

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Taking Care of Your Career

1.      Introduction – Greg.  Greg opened up the session and announced that Wendy Woodward, Director, Technology Support Services, Northwestern University could not be in attendance today due to a family emergency.

The World is Open - Watch the streamed video

Created by Lida Larsen (EDUCAUSE) on January 21, 2010

ELI 2010 Featured Session:  The World is Open – shout out “WE ALL LEARN”  with Web Technology - Lively presentation looking at ten key trends in technology that are “education openers”!   Curtis Bonk, Professor, Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University System and author of The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education.  His talk includes 15 predictions for the future as well.  Available at http://educause.mediasite.com/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=b718b05e52224357b32a96d07d591720


 
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