Ideas….

Powerpoints for this session can be found on Brown’s Website.

TEI allows for…..

• long term storage. its in xml so it should last
• allows you to analyze information
• if you want to share your data it needs to be meaningful for others. if you encode in TEI others can figure it out.

TEI is…

• a standards organization
• maintains, develops, disseminates the language
• humanities documents of all kinds (internationally)
• membership consortium that pays annual fee to support the TEI and activities surrounding TEI
• social! it allows people to get together to discuss humanities
• a set of guidelines that covers the grammar and vocabulary of the markup language

A system that you can take and apply in the ways you need to apply your data.

Different types of disciplines use different standards, ie. digital libraries might need different information than linguistics. However they are all valid in the TEI language. Some projects using TEI are listed on Wikipedia. There is a logistical way to normalize the different ways people use TEI. The MONK Project has created conversion processes to make the different types of TEI to work with their TEI.

Another thing to think about is the Resource Description Framework (RDF) developed by the W3C. Information on RDF can be found on the W3C Website.

A professor reported some problems with PDF files. I’ll need to actually see the problem myself to check out what the problem is. Here are some links to people posting about similar issues:

• Using Moodle: PDF issues – cannot open PDF: error “file is damaged”
• Someone in the above postings indicated that gzip compression being on could cause the problem. He suggested looking at the apache site: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html
• Using Moodle: PDFs not loading with 1.9

It looks like Amazon Web Services has come up with a new tiered pricing system.

Dear Amazon Web Services Developer,

As you know, our goal is to drive down our costs relentlessly, and to pass on those savings to our customers in the form of lower prices. Amazon S3 has grown rapidly, now housing over 29 billion objects, and we’ve been able to make the service even more efficient. Six months ago, we lowered outbound transfer prices. Today, we’re pleased to announce new storage pricing tiers. This new pricing structure means that your costs will continue to decrease over time as your storage increases. These changes will be effective November 1, 2008.
Current storage price (through Oct 31, 2008)
US: $0.150 per GB
EU: $0.180 per GB

New storage price (effective Nov 1, 2008)
US
$0.150 First 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.140 Next 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.130 Next 400 TB / month of storage used
$0.120 Storage used / month over 500 TB

EU
$0.180 First 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.170 Next 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.160 Next 400 TB / month of storage used
$0.150 Storage used / month over 500 TB

Please see http://aws.amazon.com/s3 for full Amazon S3 pricing info. Thank you as always for your support.

Sincerely,

The Amazon S3 Team

Seems to be a bit more affordable over the long haul.