Re-Imagining the Stack:
Minimal Computing at Scale in the Digital Library
Dawn Childress, UCLA Digital Library
@kirschbombe
Mapping Maupassant's Bel-Ami
- Originally built in Wordpress
- Wanted: out of the CMS - collaborative, open, flexible - exposure to DH/tech skills
- Resulted in Boulevardier framework (fork in GitHub!)
Re-Imagining the stack
Adoption of solutions like Boulevardier for classroom projects in lieu of yet another Drupal site, but...
- How might digital libraries make use of minimal computing?
-- What gains might we see at the enterprise level?
-- Where can we reduce technical infrastructure, especially related to maintenance and labor costs? - More fluid front-ends ➝ experimenting with Angular
- Minimal workflows ?
"Automate like you are going to live forever, document like you are going to die tomorrow" - Michael Sperberg-McQueen
Minimal + Adaptive?
- Cuba: adaptive technology to meet the needs of community
- Model based on Cuba's sneakernet
- Laptop with Collective Access + Wifi hotspot
- Move to minimal infrastructure external drive
- External drive can be copied & shared
- ... and copied and shared ...
Cuba ➝
Thank you!
Dawn Childress, UCLA Digital Library Program
@kirschbombe