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Collaborative Digital Library Services in a Cloud

Authors:
Kurt Maly

Keywords: digital library; windows azure; cloud computing

Abstract:
We have developed a web-based system that allows users to collaboratively organize large online image collections according to an evolving faceted classification schema. One of the major issues identified in the early deployment and evaluation in a university setting is the scalability of the system on traditional server implementations. Traditional computing cannot support ever-increasing number of users, documents, schema objects, schema history, and automated classification processes without difficult, expensive and time consuming resource reconfiguration. To address this problem we are proposing to move our system on a cloud-based Microsoft Windows Azure platform exposing it to users as a collaborative cloud service. Cloud computing will enable the Facet System to scale virtually unlimited. In this paper, we describe the architectural design for deploying our facet-based system and early prototypical modules as well as the work in progress implementing it on the Windows Azure platform.

Pages: 98 to 103

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: November 21, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-105-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 21, 2010 to November 26, 2010