Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker

Content is Not King

The Internet is widely regarded as primarily a content delivery system. Yet historically, connectivity has mattered much more than content. Even on the Internet, content is not as important as is often claimed, since it is email that is still the true “killer app.” The primacy of connectivity over content explains phenomena that have baffled wireless industry observers, such as the enthusiastic...

Content as a Network Primitive

The current functionality supported by OpenFlowbased software defined networking (SDN) includes switching, routing, tunneling, and some basic fire walling while operating on traffic flows. However, the semantics of SDN do not allow for other operations on the traffic, nor does it allow operations at a higher granularity. In this work, we describe a method to expand the SDN framework to add othe...

Moving a repository of scholarly content to a cloud

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the problems faced by MyAIS, an open access repository of scholarly content, the reasons for moving to a cloud infrastructure and the design of the system. Design/methodology/approach – MyAIS is supported by an IBM HS22V multiple blade server using virtualization technology. A single blade server runs both MyAIS’s back-end that handles the processing of dig...

Faces as Content

This paper describes our position in relation to issues of ‘faces as content’; content that really ‘matters’ to people. Faces convey so much, yet mediation can disrupt these subtle signals. We discuss the social, identity and emotional judgements made of the face and then consider the often-disruptive effect of mediation on these signals. Finally, we describe how faces should be mediated smartl...

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