Library Cataloging
Open Office 3.0 is released today. It is also Open Access Day, nice fit there. But don't bother to try to download it now, the servers are overwelmed. You can grab it using BitTorrent. A nice P2P tool that is for more than stealing movies.
- Marc Records
Ed Summers has "created a bittorrent of the concatenated MARC files donated to the Internet Archive by Scriblio (7,030,372 records)": http://inkdroid.org/torrents/lc-bib.torrent...
- Bandwidth
At times we take big hits on our system. For instance, when we recently put up scans of 100 lunar maps and hundreds of folks decided to download them all at the same time. Now demand has tapered off and things are back to normal. I've been an advocate...
- Podcasting 101
I'd not normally point to this, Podcasting 101, too many others are already pointing to it and it is slides from a talk. However, it has some very information packed slides. It is a good introduction to podcasting. Thanks to Jenny Levine and Su Bochenski...
- Bittorrent
BitTorrent is an often neglected or maligned P2P service. It is often characterized as a place to share illegal copies of movies and music. However, the tool is very useful in distributing large files to large numbers of people. I've often thought...
- Downloading
BitTorrent is a unique approach to sharing files. It uses a distributed method to share the load of downloading. The more users requesting a file, the less the load on the host machine. This could be very useful for RLG, OCLC and LC when they offer new...
Library Cataloging
Open Office and BitTorrent
Open Office 3.0 is released today. It is also Open Access Day, nice fit there. But don't bother to try to download it now, the servers are overwelmed. You can grab it using BitTorrent. A nice P2P tool that is for more than stealing movies.
BitTorrent is a P2P method where a central 'tracker' keeps track of who is downloading and sharing specific files.
When using BitTorrent to download OpenOffice.org, your computer automatically uses spare bandwidth to help share the file with others, and this means that you don't have to put up with slower downloads during peak download times (such as just after a release), because the more people downloading, the more people sharing.
Also, your download is automatically checked for integrity to make sure that it is identical to the official version.
To use BitTorrent technology, you must have a BitTorrent "client" installed.
- Marc Records
Ed Summers has "created a bittorrent of the concatenated MARC files donated to the Internet Archive by Scriblio (7,030,372 records)": http://inkdroid.org/torrents/lc-bib.torrent...
- Bandwidth
At times we take big hits on our system. For instance, when we recently put up scans of 100 lunar maps and hundreds of folks decided to download them all at the same time. Now demand has tapered off and things are back to normal. I've been an advocate...
- Podcasting 101
I'd not normally point to this, Podcasting 101, too many others are already pointing to it and it is slides from a talk. However, it has some very information packed slides. It is a good introduction to podcasting. Thanks to Jenny Levine and Su Bochenski...
- Bittorrent
BitTorrent is an often neglected or maligned P2P service. It is often characterized as a place to share illegal copies of movies and music. However, the tool is very useful in distributing large files to large numbers of people. I've often thought...
- Downloading
BitTorrent is a unique approach to sharing files. It uses a distributed method to share the load of downloading. The more users requesting a file, the less the load on the host machine. This could be very useful for RLG, OCLC and LC when they offer new...