[CODE4LIB] CouchDB

2009-03-17 Thread phil cryer
Hey all, I just started experimenting with CouchDB the other day, and it's pretty cool. With the amount of data the Botanical Heritage Library (BHL) is carrying, this may be an option for the future. Does anyone have any experience with it, or any pointers to a good howto, or basic setup/usage ca

Re: [CODE4LIB] CouchDB

2009-03-17 Thread Mark Jordan
Hi Phil, I'm starting to play with CouchDB myself, mainly as a way of learning about schemaless databases. Have you seen the book that is being written, http://books.couchdb.org/relax/ ? So far it's got a pretty good set of up-and-running instructions and some basic howtos. Mark - "phil c

[CODE4LIB] extra computers

2009-03-17 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
How do y'all suggest I put to good use the increasing number of extra computers I have lying around my house? You would think I was starting a computer museum with the number of decommissioned computers I have at home. A few Macintoshes and a couple of Intel-based machines. (Not to mention the TI-

Re: [CODE4LIB] extra computers

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Tuttle
Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > How do y'all suggest I put to good use the increasing number of extra > computers I have lying around my house? > > You would think I was starting a computer museum with the number of > decommissioned computers I have at home. A few Macintoshes and a couple of > Intel-ba

Re: [CODE4LIB] extra computers

2009-03-17 Thread Joe Atzberger
Check for a local branch of freegeek for rehabilitation and environmental disposal: http://www.freegeek.org/ Columbus has one, so South Bend might too. --Joe On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jim Tuttle wrote: > Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > How do y'all suggest I put to good use the increasing

Re: [CODE4LIB] extra computers

2009-03-17 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: How do y'all suggest I put to good use the increasing number of extra computers I have lying around my house? You would think I was starting a computer museum with the number of decommissioned computers I have at home. A few Macintoshes and a couple

Re: [CODE4LIB] extra computers

2009-03-17 Thread Patrick K. Etienne
Depending on your amount of free bandwidth, there are some interesting distributed computing projects that you might be able to contribute to. s...@home is the largest, and probably most popular, but there are all sorts of initiatives in Biology, Mathematics, Physics and other fields. Here'

Re: [CODE4LIB] extra computers

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Barr
For those in the Philadelphia area, there is Nonprofit Technology Resources: http://www.ntronline.org/ (They shares some of their space with The Hacktory: http://thehacktory.org/) --chris Joe Atzberger wrote: Check for a local branch of freegeek for rehabilitation and environmental disposal

Re: [CODE4LIB] CouchDB

2009-03-17 Thread John Beppu
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:22 AM, phil cryer wrote: > Hey all, I just started experimenting with CouchDB the other day, and > it's pretty cool. With the amount of data the Botanical Heritage > Library (BHL) is carrying, this may be an option for the future. Does > anyone have any experience with

[CODE4LIB] 30 days left to get early bird registration for OR09

2009-03-17 Thread Larry Hansard
You have until April 17th for early bird registration for the Open Repositories 2009 Conference being held in Atlanta, Ga May 18-21, 2009. The registration URL is https://or09.library.gatech.edu/registration.php The OR09 web site is https://or09.library.gatech.edu