On 11/21/2010 08:12 PM, John Bywater wrote:
So the "archive network" part was always a bit of a misnomer. Obviously enough, the issue with archiving the data (which Perl scripts mostly don't suffer from) is that archiving data sets can require very large storage capacity. So it makes sense to have the data decentralised.
I'm currently trying to find Ars Electronica's datasets online again. I downloaded them a year or so ago, and there's no sign of them anywhere other than ManyEyes now. Metadata is no good if it points to a dead resource, and storage and bandwidth costs are continuing to decrease. I think that a repository and mirror system, such as GNU and the various GNU/Linux distros use, would be a very good thing.
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