[MCN-L] Cloud Computing (Cindy Mackey)

A few of my notes in answer to, and +1 to things raised in the responses: > If the cloud server goes down, you have no ability to fix it. You just > have to wait. > Which is just the same as an onsite server. Amazon/etc. have teams of people dedicated to just keeping the servers running and to d

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing (Cindy Mackey)

>Try Confluence from >Atlassian for a wiki. It fits the bill of being an easy to use and being a >wiki ;-) If I didn't mention the Atlassian toolset, from Confluence to Jira, and their many add-ons as a very robust alternative to Sharepoint, then I s

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

We employ several cloud services as a backup systems and redundancy measures. We do not, and will not, employ cloud services as a primary repository of our data, for several reasons which I will briefly discuss here. 1. Technical: Bandwidth in the US is still very expensive. To get real quality

[MCN-L] Publication handbook "Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums"

Hi, Some of you might be interested in the handbook "Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums. How to clean, link and publish your metadata" which was published with Facet/ALA-Neal Schuman last week. This handbook has been written specifically for people with a humanities background. You

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

"As a contemporary art institution, we often display and give a stage for discussion to artists and performers who are marked as dissidents and troublemakers. It will be counter to our mission if some critical instance of our operation goes dark because of some political pressure." Hear, hear.

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

Regarding the bandwidth issue: I suggest looking past traditional vendors in your quest for better internet access. We connected our new museum to USC / Los Nettos with new fiber that was leased from http://wilcon.com/ for the same capital cost as new service from ATT. When we open we will have

[MCN-L] Help us digitize and share the Docent Educator Journal

Dear MCN Colleagues, We need your help with really important Kickstarter project. Museum-Ed has launched a project to digitize all 12 years of The Docent Educator, a publication designed for museum docents and the educators who work with them, with articles written by leaders in our field. Thi