cloudy futures
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Charleston Conference 2011 – Something’s Gotta Give!
Clouds: Obscure or Bright Spot?
Michael Winkler
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Director of iTadd
Kuali OLE Functional Council Chair
Charleston Conference 2011 – Something’s Gotta Give!
Agenda
Ecosystems & Supply Chain
The Promise of Clouds (SaaS, IaaS, DaaS)
Building End-to-End Services from Vapor?
Cloudy Futures
Charleston Conference 2011 – Something’s Gotta Give!
Ecosystems
Clouds don’t exist
independently
Ecosystems depend
on suppliers
They are enhanced by
intermediaries
And require they
recharge
Image by EEK!
Charleston Conference 2011 – Something’s Gotta Give!
Ecosystems & Libraries
Researchers
Publishers
ProvidersLibraries
Readers
The Scholarly Record
Research Dissemination
Publication Supply Chain
Discovery, Service, &
Economics
Validation, Learning, &
Innovation
Reuse, Remix, Recycle
Charleston Conference 2011 – Something’s Gotta Give!
The Promise of Clouds
Integrations are expensive Our library systems are built around a model that views
the supply chain as exogenous, chaotic, and unreliable
So, they are built to transform this crazy world into some internal view of rationality with individualized ingesters
This begets variety of availabilities & formats with little economic need for consistency
So that, once data is consumed by library systems, it looks like an end-point – a closed loop
The promise of clouds Commoditize high quality, authoritative data available for
consumption, reuse, or reference
Lower costs of deployment
Increase availability
Charleston Conference 2011 – Something’s Gotta Give!
Clouds & Ecology
If you build it, will they come? Developing services in the cloud entails risks
Building systems dependent or expectant on the cloud entails…risks
The problem of many
Risk mitigation through community Articulate and viable use cases
Coordination between players
Adherence, and where necessary, development of standard interfaces
Infrastructure to support value add through reuse & remix
Commodities & community good Commodity data lubricates the supply chain
And value added services replenishes the cycle
Charleston Conference 2011 – Something’s Gotta Give!
Kuali OLE and Clouds
Kuali OLE Library management software built by libraries for libraries
Support from our partnership & from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation
Year 2 roadmap has milestone releases○ 0.3 – Nov 2011
○ 0.6 – Mar 2012
○ 1.0 – July 2012
Built in & assumes a robust ecosystem of cloud services KOLE is being built in the cloud for many of the same reasons
○ Convenience
○ Cost effectiveness
○ Prepare us for cloud instantiations
Some data is a commodity, a community good, that we all can rely on –identifiers, descriptions, packaging – that everyone uses
Some data requires localization or is value-added service – holdings, enhanced metadata, integrations – that are differentiators
Both need sustainability
Charleston Conference 2011 – Something’s Gotta Give!
Questions
Michael Winkler
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @winkler4
Linked in: winkler4
Kuali OLE
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