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Re: Totally cached out

I want before and after stats! How many requests / second with everything cached like that? Do you guys have everything in the cloud now? Jealous. I spent today replace a motherboard... :(

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Re: Totally cached out

Nate,Yeah, I was thinking about doing a little study. We are currently only using it on this labs blog ( Wordpress ) and another WP site which is still in development. I hope to roll this out on our...

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Re: Totally cached out

BTW - Nate, you can see the memcache response time for the labs blog at http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/p... -- click the icons for each item in the key to filter out what you want to look at. I think its...

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Re: Totally cached out

Micah,Great to see you using ElastiCache. I'm a member of the ElastiCache team at AWS and I'd love to chat with you about your experience. Please email me if you're open to the idea.Cheers,Rahul

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Re: Totally cached out

Rahul,Feel free to reach me at walterm@si.edu.Micah

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Re: Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections

Also check out Patrick Murray-John's similar experience at #ThatCamp - http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2...

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Re: Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections

Data dump vs API? This is a conversation that has been going on for years. Luke Dearnley at Powerhouse Museum in Sydney covers a lot of this territory in his paper from Museums and the Web 2011 -...

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Re: Patrick Murray-John hacks our collection at #THATcamp

Data dump vs API? This is a conversation that has been going on for years. Luke Dearnley at Powerhouse Museum in Sydney covers a lot of this territory in his paper from Museums and the Web 2011 -...

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Re: Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections

Great post Mia. Will the Cooper-Hewitt re-ingest your consistent data?

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Re: Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections

That's the plan. It is going to need more normalisation and clean up before we can do it but the nice thing about Refine is the ability to save the methods used.I've got to say that the Powerhouse data...

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Re: Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections

Thanks for the detailed post of your experience with the collection data, Mia. I teach cataloging and metadata and one of the most difficult things for students to grasp is why punctuation, vocabulary...

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Re: Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections

Hi Joan, I'm glad to hear my post might help!  I gave an internal presentation of my findings to Cooper-Hewitt staff so hopefully they can at least implement some of the quick wins in data cleaning....

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Re: Mia Ridge explores the shape of Cooper-Hewitt collections

And I'd be wary about ingesting some of my cleaned data as in the end a lot of it was probably over-cleaned in the aid of getting a workable set of data.

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Re: Deploying 129 iPads to NYC Schools

Katie,Congratulations on such a great program. We have just published our first children's book in English and American Sign Language. Our iBook is available to be read by text in English, listened to...

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Re: First look at our new online collection (public alpha)

"This is our stuff, we have lots of it" - love it. And the people pages - I'm excited about the people pages. VERY EXCITED. Congrats on the alpha alpha alpha launch!

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Re: First look at our new online collection (public alpha)

"more promiscuous with our content".. Love it.. Get It our there :-)

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Re: First look at our new online collection (public alpha)

Very interesting and i really enjoy the exploration.Just one thing :“Perfect is the enemy of good” (Voltaire).Nope."Le mieux est le mortel ennemi du bien."Montesquieu (Pensées n°1007, XIII)~"Better is...

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Re: First look at our new online collection (public alpha)

Congrats! The feel of being part of the web, instead of separate from shines through.Since this is an alpha, time to pass along some comments here (I don't see a specific place for feedback on the...

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Re: First look at our new online collection (public alpha)

Congrats again Seb and team. I am also excited by this for so many reasons - and particularly the reach towards a web where, as Charles Eames put it:“Eventually everything connects—people, ideas,...

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Re: First look at our new online collection (public alpha)

We'll get better with the pictures in the Beta and beyond . . . .

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