[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will mean *.loc.gov is going offline October 1

2013-09-30 Thread Uldis Bojars
What are best practices for preventing problems in cases like this when an important Linked Data service may go offline? --- originally this was a reply to Jodi which she suggested to post on the list too --- A safe [pessimistic?] approach would be to say we don't trust [reliability of] linked

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will mean *.loc.gov is going offline October 1

2013-09-30 Thread Jodi Schneider
FYI... A torrent in a bagit, courtesy of dchud. -J -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan Chudnov dc...@umich.edu Date: Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will mean *.loc.govis going offline October 1 To: Jodi Schneider

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will mean *.loc.gov is going offline October 1

2013-09-30 Thread Karen Coyle
I don't know of any best practices *yet* but for various reasons it seems to me that a network of mirrors that push updates out would be a good thing. Even not considering major government disfunctionality, there are fires and floods and earthquakes and ... etc. It's never sufficient to rely