I suspect that for a reasonably large computer center the incremental
costs of cpu/storage/bandwidth would be minimal. The cost of management
may be significant, but a 'management board' might be able to handle it.
That is, you get a small committee that makes the necessary decisions
that arise.
kc
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> The technical problem (with a social component) is who is going to pay
> for the server cpu/storage/bandwidth to house a centralized store? A P2P
> approach seems like an interesting and appropriate solution to that
> problem.
>
> But it should be able to add it as a 'layer' at a later date, as long as
> you keep it in mind, it probably isn't neccessary to focus on that level
> of technical 'optimization' up front.
>
> Jonathan
>
> MULLEN Allen wrote:
>> Just wanted to briefly respond to a brief portion of Tim's last post:
>>
>>
>>> Using peer-to-peer here strikes me as a technical solution to
>>> a social and legal problem.
>>>
>>
>> Social problem is solved if libraries participate and what is produced
>> has ready value. I'm unaware of a legal problem - creating an
>> independent, open-source and freely available authority file based on
>> MARC21 for Authority should, by virtue of being based on the
>> intellectual content governed by LC, be public domain.
>>
>> Allen
>>
>>
>
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> Jonathan Rochkind
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> The Sheridan Libraries
> Johns Hopkins University
> 410.516.8886
> rochkind (at) jhu.edu
>
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