05.21.08
Posted in notelets at 7:46 am by yee
As I prepare my JCDL 2008 Tutorial (Creating and Enabling Data Mashups), might I make use of Eric Lease Morgan's XML in libraries: A workshop?
Of note is an upcoming workshop aimed at libraries — CARL-IT North: Mashup the Library: An introduction to mashup technology and the art of remixing library and information resources.
codepad:
codepad.org is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool. Paste your code below, and codepad will run it and give you a short URL you can use to share it in chat or email.
I'd like to experiment with it to see whether it's a good place to paste code fragments that I want to share (and run!). I also want to think through how it sandboxes runnable code.
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Posted in repositories at 7:38 am by yee
A friend sent me a link to a recent post by Brad Templeton, Data hosting instead of data portability:
A data hosting approach has your personal data stored on a server chosen by you. (You might have that server right in your own house, or pay for hosting services.) If you pay, that server’s duty is not to exploit your data, but rather to protect it. That’s what you’re paying for. You can have more than one (with different personas, if you like) but for now let’s imagine having just one.Your data host’s job is to perform actions on your data. Rather than giving copies of your data out to a thousand companies (the Facebook and Data Portability approach) you host the data and perform actions on it, programmed by those companies who are developing useful social applications.
I find data hosting appealing and would like to shift towards hosting my own data as opposed to having my data hosted elsewhere. It's a matter of making it practical though.
For instance, I'm a big fan of Flickr because it makes it so easy to have my photos taken care of. But ideally, I'd like to host my own photos and directly control how people access them. I'd do that if I could build a good repository and layer services on top of them — just like Flickr. But Flickr has an economy of scale that I don't have — it can solve that problem and provide the solution to many people.
Now, it's possible that we can solve that problem too and sell and/orr share it to lots of people so that they can do more of their own data hosting. Is that a business that I would want to be in?
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