Dear All,
There are still a few places left for the SCAPE webinar 'ToMaR – The Tool-to-MapReduce Wrapper: How to Let Your Preservation Tools Scale' which takes places tomorrow (21 March) at 10:00 GMT/ 11:00 CET.
To reserve a place, please register at: http://scape-tomar.eventbrite.co.uk/.
*Overview*
When dealing with large volumes of files, e.g. in the context of file format migration or characterisation tasks, a standalone server often cannot provide sufficient throughput to process the data in a feasible period of time. ToMaR provides a simple and flexible solution to run preservation tools on a Hadoop MapReduce cluster in a scalable fashion.
ToMaR offers the possibility to use existing command-line tools and Java applications in Hadoop’s distributed environment very similarly to a Desktop computer. By utilizing SCAPE tool specification documents, ToMaR allows users to specify complex command-line patterns as simple keywords, which can be executed on a computer cluster or a single machine. ToMaR is a generic MapReduce application which does not require any programming skills.
This webinar will introduce you to the core concepts of Hadoop and ToMaR and show you by example how to apply it to the scenario of file format migration.
*Learning outcomes*
1. Understand the basic principals of Hadoop
2. Understand the core concepts of ToMaR
3. Apply knowledge of Hadoop and ToMaR to the file format migration scenario
*Who should attend?*
Practitioners and developers who are:
• dealing with command line tools (preferrably of the digital preservation domain) in their daily work
• interested in Hadoop and how it can be used for binary content and 3rd-party tools
Session Lead: Matthias Rella, Austrian Institute of Technology
Time: 10:00 GMT / 11:00 CET
Duration: 1 hour
Kind Regards,
Rebecca McGuinness
Open Planets Foundation
@openplanets
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