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Web-based File Storage

Web-based File Storage. Now and the Future Jim Bostick Academic Technology Virginia Commonwealth University. Web-based File Storage. Now Future Speculation Discussion Sharing History, Transforming IT. Now. WebDAV standard

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Web-based File Storage

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  1. Web-based File Storage Now and the Future Jim Bostick Academic Technology Virginia Commonwealth University ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

  2. Web-based File Storage • Now • Future Speculation • Discussion • Sharing History, Transforming IT ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

  3. Now • WebDAV standard • According to Webopedia, http://isp.webopedia.com/TERM/W/WebDAV.html : Short for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, an IETFstandard set of platform-independent extensions to HTTP that allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remoteWeb servers. WebDAV features XML properties on metadata, locking - which prevents authors from overwriting each other's changes - namespace manipulation and remote file management. • VCU’s efforts • Xythos • Blackboard Content Management System • Google’s Gmail • ECAR study ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

  4. Now -- Xythos • Adheres to WebDAV standard • Sharing of files among others on the system and external users • Versioning • Demo ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

  5. Now -- Blackboard Content Management System • Based on Xythos • Overcomes some Blackboard shortcomings, such as sharing content among multiple courses or sections • ePortfolio component • Demo ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

  6. Now -- Google Gmail • 1 GB free storage • Google search of messages • Labels rather than folders • 1 GB free storage ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

  7. Now – ECAR Study 2004 • ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology, 2004 http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/ers/ERS0405/ekf0405.pdf • 93.4% of students own a computer • 38.5% of seniors own a laptop • 52.7% of freshman own a laptop • 81% of students have broadband access ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

  8. Future Speculation • O'Reilly Network Weblogs: The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It's Bogus • sp!ked-IT | Article | The end of the web as we know it? • USATODAY.com - Next big thing: The Web as your servant • InformationWeek > Software Titans > How Google Threatens Microsoft > November 22, 2004 • Riding the Grid Wave - Computerworld • Nanotechnology Will Bring 100TB Disks • ACM News Service • Google Gives Behind-the-Scenes Peek ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

  9. Discussion – Sharing History, Transforming IT • What was it like in 1995? • What is it like in 2005? • What will it be like in 2015? (Mouse over document below to open and see discussion) ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

  10. Clay Shirky, O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer 2001, “Lessons from Napster” "Fifty years ago, Thomas Watson estimated there was a worldwide need for maybe five computers. We now know that that number was wrong. He overestimated by 4." http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/02/15/lessons.html Jim Bostick Academic Technology Virginia Commonwealth University jim.bostick@vcu.edu ACM SIGUCCS CSMS 2005

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