About the Virtual Conference
Cloud computing seems to be a growing trend, no matter the industry or type of information system. Library systems are no stranger to this trend; just about every major systems provider has a cloud-based solution available. While many factors for selecting a cloud system are similar to those for any information system decision, there are some special issues and challenges for storing your data in the cloud, including security, privacy, ownership, interoperability, and transferability.
In this virtual conference, libraries that have explored the use of cloud systems will discuss their experiences, their concerns, issues encountered, and lessons learned.
Event Sessions
11:00 am: Welcome & Introduction
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11:10 am - 12:00 pm: Keynote Speaker
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Rick McMullen, PhD, is the director of the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center at the University of Arkansas. Previous to that, he was the director of research computing at the University of Kansas. As both a scientist and strategist, McMullen has spent more than 20 years in high performance computing research and technical management. His positions have included work on strategic technology evaluation and planning in both the private sector and higher education.
At the University of Kansas, McMullen led the effort to develop research computing, communications and storage services to provide a university-wide, research computing infrastructure. During his time at Indiana University, he spearheaded first- and second-generation technology exploration and development. His efforts there focused on high-performance computing, visualization, storage and high-performance networking for research applications.
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm: Integrated Library Systems Moving to the Cloud
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This presentation explores the migration of integrated library systems (ILS) from servers located in the library or on campus to the cloud. The strengths and weaknesses of using the cloud as the foundation for providing access to automated services is considered in some detail. Benefits accrue to both the library and the vendor when using the cloud.
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm: Big Data Processing in the Cloud: a Hydra/Sufia Experience
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This presentation addresses the challenge of processing big data in a cloud-based data repository. Using the Hydra Project’s Hydra and Sufia ruby gems and working with the Hydra community, we prototyped a special repository for a big data archiving and reusing project, and set up background jobs. Our approach is to create the metadata with these jobs, which are distributed across multiple computing cores. This will allow us to scale our infrastructure out on an as-needed basis, and decouples automatic metadata creation from the response times seen by the user. While the metadata is not immediately available after ingestion, it does mean that the object is. By distributing the jobs, we can compute complex properties without impacting the repository server. Hydra and Sufia allowed us to get a head start by giving us a simple self deposit repository, complete with background jobs support via Redis and Resque.
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm: Lunch Break
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm: Cloud Computing in Library Instruction
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Kris Helge from the University of North Texas will talk about cloud computing, how to use it in library instruction, and the legal risks involved.
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm: Data Publication and Sharing with Globus
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The Globus service (http://www.globus.org) will soon provide new data publication and discovery services, in addition to its current big data transfer and sharing capabilities. Globus data publication offers: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for publishing large research data; bring your own storage, or use cloud storage; extensible metadata; publication and curation workflows; public and restricted collections; rich discovery model. This presentation will give an overview and demonstration of these Globus data publication and sharing services.
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm: eResource Management in the Cloud
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University of Nebraska Omaha migrated from a traditional ERMs to OCLCs cloud-based solution (WMS) in 2013, which provides a unified framework for e-resource management, with discovery, ILS, ERM, link resolver and A-Z list all contained within one platform. The cloud-based system also makes it possible to share data between cooperative members and allows for automatic record loads of some publisher records by OCLC. The combination of local data, shared global data and automatic record loads, combined with a lack of best practices/guidelines present unique challenges for libraries managing e-resources in a cloud-based environment. This session will highlight some of the benefits and challenges of implementing cloud-based e-resource management.
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm: Afternoon Break
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Security and Data Ownership in the Cloud
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In an age of security breaches and lengthy terms and conditions governing data ownership, moving library applications to the cloud raises a lot of questions but also many opportunities for library service providers to distinguish themselves from commercial web companies. Libraries must be key players in balancing technological capabilities with the professional ethics, legal, and political realities that govern library services in the cloud.
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Privacy in the Cloud
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After 10 years doing physics research at Bell Labs, Eric got interested in electronic publishing, started an e-journal, started a company, built linking technology for libraries, sold that company to OCLC and worked there a few years, started blogging, and finally decided that the important thing to do would be to make ebooks work for libraries. And everyone else.
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Conference Roundtable
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Additional Information
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Registration closes on September 23, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. (ET). Cancellations made by September 17, 2014 will receive a refund, less a $35 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.
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Registrants will receive detailed instructions about accessing the virtual conference via e-mail the Friday prior to the event. (Anyone registering between Monday and the close of registration will receive the message shortly after the registration is received, within normal business hours.) Due to the widespread use of spam blockers, filters, out of office messages, etc., it is your responsibility to contact the NISO office if you do not receive login instructions before the start of the webinar.
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If you have not received your Login Instruction email by 10AM (ET) on the Tuesday before the virtual conference, please contact the NISO office or email Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager at jwood@niso.org for immediate assistance.
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Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the conference. You may have as many people as you like from the registrant's organization view the conference from that one connection. If you need additional connections, you will need to enter a separate registration for each connection needed.
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If you are registering someone else from your organization, either use that person's e-mail address when registering or contact the NISO office to provide alternate contact information.
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Conference presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to this event webpage following the live conference.
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Registrants will receive an e-mail message containing access information to the archived conference recording within 48 hours after the event. This recording access is only to be used by the registrant's organization.