February 22nd 2008
Some of the pathfinder team have been in Edinburgh this week to attend the intraLibrary user conference.
We've come here to discover what new features are coming in the next release and to see what solutions are available for our current challenges.
The new product does seem to have extended the API's for remote access over the web services protocol. This should help us to make the links between the VLE and the repository more intuitive.
We found some good news on the scalability front as we have found that the repository can use a transparent http accellerator which means we can distribute the retrieval of documents over as many servers as we want. That should be enough to allow us to use the repository for video downloads.
We'll try that out and see whether we can get a feel for the size of the servers we need to use to accomodate the videos our health faculty want to distribute.
Posted by Jonathan Knight @ Keele Pathfinder Team |
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