The advantage and strategy of traditional library cloud computing application

As a business computing model, cloud computing tasks are distributed across a pool of computer-enabled resources, enabling users to gain computing power, storage space, and information services on demand. Cloud computing has had a huge impact in just two or three years because of the convergence of cloud computing resources, the need to automate management, and the advantages of no human involvement, high efficiency, low cost, and dynamic expansion.

The core idea of cloud computing services is to make a large number of network-connected computing resources through unified management and utilization, thus forming a pool of computing resources to provide users with a variety of services and support. This allows resources to switch to the desired application and access the computer and storage system as needed. Cloud computing can support the operation of grid applications by quickly providing physical and virtual servers. A grid program can break down a large task into a number of small tasks running in parallel on different clusters and servers. Cloud computing simplifies the implementation of it architectures and provides an ideal way for it applications to be customized, ready for use and paid on demand, like utilities such as hydro-gas.

As a communication culture and social educational institution, the special nature of the library determines that it must serve the society and serve the public. The library collects, collates, stores and processes all kinds of information resources through the system, the aim of which is to expect more users to discover and use them. For many years, the library's information service has made remarkable achievements and made great contribution in the local culture and economic construction. In order to better adapt to large information large data society, the traditional library information service needs to integrate advantages, improve the level of management and service, from the infrastructure level to solve many long-term problems of library network information management and service, play a greater role.

Cloud computing in the field of library applications and research has begun, the library's cloud era is coming. The future trend of library development in the cloud computing environment is to improve the level of library Network information management and service through cloud computing, to reshape the environment of Library's survival and development, to reduce the cost of management and service, and to promote library reform.

You can first understand OCLC (onlinecomputerlibrarycenter,inc, online Computer Library center), "Web-level cooperative library management Services." April 23, 2009, OCLC announced the forthcoming launch of the "Web-level collaborative Library Management Service" based on WorldCat bibliographic data, which is recognized as a cloud computing service. Thanks to the far-reaching influence of OCLC in the library world, the move heralds the beginning of a broad application of cloud computing in the library field.

The Duracloud project of the Library of Congress and the Duraspace company to effectively address the service issues of effective access and preservation of the national public Digital heritage, National digital Information Infrastructure and conservation project of the Library of Congress (Nationaldigitalinformationinfrastructureandpreservationprogram, NDIIPP) and Duraspace jointly announced in July 2009 the launch of a one-year pilot project, NDIIPP project partners The New York Public Library and the Biodiversity History Library (Biodiversityheritagelibrary) were also involved in the pilot project. The main purpose of the pilot project is to detect the performance of cloud technology in maintaining permanent access to digital content. Cloud computing leverages remote computers to provide localized services to users, supported by cloud services, and provides storage and access services, including content replication and content monitoring services that enable interoperability among a number of cloud storage service providers. This is an important testimony of the library's further application of cloud computing. It can be expected that this experiment will have a huge impact on the application of cloud computing in libraries.

At the same time, the development of China's cloud computing is very swift. May 10, 2008, the Wuxi government and IBM to build the Wuxi Software Park Cloud Computing Center, opened the cloud computing applications in China. June 24, IBM set up the second China's cloud computing center IBM Greater China Cloud Computing Center. July 2008 Rising launched a "cloud security" program. November 25, 2008, the China Electronic Society has set up a cloud computing expert committee. The first E-commerce Cloud Computing Center was established in Nanjing in early 2009. China Mobile Research Institute cloud Computing started early, has completed the Cloud Computing Center experiment. At present, China has set up different degree of joint cataloging system in Calis, National Library and provincial and municipal libraries. If the library builds cloud computing applications, this is the first one that can be discussed and implemented. At present, some scholars and core competitive companies combine cloud computing, SaaS, Web2.0, SOA and other technologies to propose library cloud strategy: such as designing and developing Cstor Digital Library cloud service platform, constructing multilevel Library Cloud Service center, providing users with various types of digital library services, At the same time to provide the library with localized digital Library cloud computing solutions.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)