#widernet

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personal notes. what is WiderNet. WiderNet is a resource for research papers. its a world in itself and that should remain the focus.

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We cant say where we are located, but the island is to tap into two of those nodes with a fiber optic cable. Its made necessary by WiderNet. 

Will the Solaris Nexus datacenter be enough to accommodate everyone. In computing there is no such thing as victim of your success, there is such a thing as being able to scale up your infrastructure as needed. 

Maybe WiderNet will require more resources someday located elsewhere. It will mean only that it is a success.

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WiderNet will hopefully regroup every reputable scientific research or educative institution which seeks to monetize its scientific research papers. Because it could very well be that the most successful ones make it to print as topic oriented collections, from a single source or several.

Another aim is to provide fast and efficient search capabilities to allow researchers to sift through that content, to make it agile and transparent not clustered and opaque.

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WiderNet

The idea of digital libraries is not new, it is picking speed as many organizations find it worthwhile to put resources online. Neither is the idea of a research papers library new. What is new I guess is the scope of DIN's project for a scientific papers e-library, it is to put together 10M research papers under the same roof.

We need a net, a WiderNet.

The name came from an organization I have discovered while browsing through existing digital libraries on Wikipedia. WiderNet Project exists already and has goals that I find worthwile same as for eGranary.

What preoccupates us for now is the use of the name for which we can contribute to the WiderNet Project. And so money being a sensible thing we will call our scientific research e-library WiderNet until proven otherwise.

To be able to search efficiently 10M of research papers a supercomputer will be needed. WiderNet can be both powered by the Solaris Nexus supercomputer planned at The Orchid and hosted on its servers. What remains is making it accessible to the wider world, for both uploading to it and serving files to users.

Since the goal is to become an e-based resource and an important one, and to be able to host a lot of traffic and execute lots of requests in satisfactory delays satellite internet wont cut it. We need a fiber connection, to the nearest internet node.

A submarine fiber cable connecting us to the internet backbone. The upside of such a connection, the College of Computing is now going to be able to study the internet.

The goal is also to normalize those papers. As data that is searchable and categorized with meta data or that can be rendered on the fly as pdf's. It is a huge project that will allow streamlining research papers into clean cut documents that have a common structure and use common tools such as for graphs for example.

And essentially powering them with a search engine.

Translation, well machine translation has improved a lot, so how can we make use of that and what needs to be improved, can we have those translations reviewed and finalized by fluent speakers as part of the translation process.

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William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba, inventeur malawite né en 1987 à Dowa, est l'inventeur de moulins à vent et coordinateur pour le programme widernet. Lire la suite : William Kamkwamba

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#widernet diversity in tech panel features representative from Google and All Star Code among others. #Afrocrowd (at Paley Center for Media (Museum of Television & Radio))

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#Afrocrowd #Wikipedia We are at a #widernet: inclusion and Innovation in Tech at the Paley Center for media tonight. - Sherry & Alice #nyc (at The Paley Center for Media)