Meeting our users, the Engineers
Paul, Nick and I had a great meeting with the two principal Engineering users last week, where we set out our broad objectives and discussed their involvement on the Orbital Project. It’s always been...
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Forecast: Cloudy
With the Orbital project we’re looking at taking a leap into the brave new world (well, at least as far as university projects go) of cloud hosting. Now, I hate the word “cloud” when used to describe...
View ArticlePiloting the cloud
Last month, Nick wrote about how Orbital is being designed as an application to run in the cloud. This week, we met with Andy Powell from Eduserv to discuss the use of their ‘Education Cloud‘ for the...
View ArticleReport to the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Committee
Part of the Orbital project governance is that I report to the university’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise Committee. The Committee meets every three months and I send a short report to each...
View ArticleWeb scale data management
Not research data as such (although it could be the subject of research), but a long and interesting blog post about how Tumblr manages huge amounts of user generated data. It’s interesting not just...
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Hello CKAN
On Wednesday, we hosted three people from the Open Knowledge Foundation, to discuss the Orbital project and their software, CKAN. It was a very engaging and productive day spent with Peter Murray-Rust...
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