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Mini-Workshop on Collaboration and Dark Fiber

Type: 
Session
Date & Time: 
Apr 8 2011 - 1:00pm
Location: 
Commonwealth A/B

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

This mini workshop will explore the technology options as they relate to Wide Area Networks (WAN’s), the technical, civil engineering and political challenges that the different options create, a planning checklist for dealing with the challenges as well the reasons that multiple institutions might desire collaborate on a WAN.

Collaboration and Dark Fiber

Keywords: 
BPOC
Keywords: 
collaborative
Keywords: 
network
Keywords: 
dark fiber
Keywords: 
shared resources
Keywords: 
virtualization
Abstract: 

The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) was created to lead technology-focused cooperation between 20 Balboa Park institutions. One of the challenges BPOC quickly uncovered when it began, was a serious limitation to supporting collaboration caused by the lack of IT infrastructure necessary to network the institutions together.

Type: 
Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches
Authors: 

Understanding the Distributed Museum: A Creative Visualization of Contemporary Digital Practices

Keywords: 
museums
Keywords: 
digital technology
Keywords: 
learning
Keywords: 
network
Keywords: 
distributed
Keywords: 
model
Abstract: 

The Distributed Museum Where is the museum for the digital generation?  Our presentati

Type: 
Professional Forum - discuss an issue