[open-science] BioTorrents

[Egon Willighagen]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Piece about BioTorrents on Nature blog:
>
>  http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/04/improving_the_portability_of_d_1.html
>
> Would be interesting to liaise with them re: registry of open data
> (i.e. CKAN and suchlike...).

Yeah, I like to idea too... the implementation will need to undergo
some evolution, but I would love to see all university libraries act
as seeds (data providers) in the bittorrent networks... should be the
cheapest library investment in years... one decent computer per
library would do.

Egon

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