[Go-essp-tech] BioTorrents

[Don Middleton]

It's a good point that's been brought up quite a few times over the  
years. Worth looking at.

Re our discussion today, we've been using the Bagit technology for  
shipping data packages around in the context of digital preservation  
and Chronopolis. It provides hooks for additional metadata to be  
bundled into the shipping manifest, which could include version and/or  
DOI info, and provides for some integrity-checking. Might be worth  
thinking about as an example of a more sophisticated data-shipping  
mechanism, going beyond a wget-script. And then there are "holey  
bags" ;-)

You can Google it, but a couple links:

	http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/videos/bagit0609.html
	http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1930046393.html

don

On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:02 AM, <stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Balaji,
>
> Thanks for the link.  I did have a think about using BitTorrent over  
> the
> Easter holidays.  Potentially it could be another service on the
> datanode.  I could imagine running seeding BitTorrent clients on all
> datanodes and having trackers on gateways.
>
> Whether we could do this without throwing security/notification/etc.  
> out
> the window is unknown.  I'll have a good read of the article.
>
> S.
>
>
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> http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010071
>
> It's a great pity we aren't using torrent technology in our field...
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