All
Mike's mention of beers and object metadata prompts me to probably naively share with the group a discussion Frankie Roberto and I had
in the after party of UKMW14 after I'd had too many.
So, the concept we had, but which raises questions we couldn't answer:
Could a grid of name servers, spread throughout the world, using the same protocols as BIND / DNS , create a cluster whereby the nearest node to you serves up sets
of museum object record metadata? Could TXT records store (there's a 256 char limit on each one) DOI type metadata?
These are then reflected out as per DNS to create a worldwide resilient publishing channel, but with no single point of failure. Root servers could be hosted by Europeana / CollectionsTrust etc
Could the way BIND DNS works , and the protocols agreed, point the way to resilient, worldwide sharing of institutions data?
Anyone see any flaws in the plan? :-))
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James
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