Hi James,
I suspect you might need to unpack some of the jargon to give the less
acronym-enabled a chance to better understand the proposal! For example,
what problem does it solve?
This is also a friendly reminder to all posters to explain the acronyms and
jargon you use and to focus on the benefits/consequences as much as the
technology - MCG posts are often widely read but occasionally need some
help to be more widely understood :)
Cheers, Mia
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On 20 November 2014 14:47, James Grimster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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? :-))
>
> --
> James
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