I mentioned in a previous post that a paper I had written for the 4th Annual Digital Curation Conference in Scotland was accepted and presented in Edinburgh on December 3rd. The paper was about XAM.
I wasn’t able to travel to present the paper but one of my co-workers from Centera presented in my place. I asked him how it went and he said roughly 30-40 people attended and that there were lots of heads nodding.
I do believe that by “heads nodding” he meant that the XAM message resonated with the Digital Curation audience, as I expected that it would.
I should have pressed him further to clarify his choice of words because sometimes terms take on different meanings between the US and the UK. Hopefully head nodding does not imply “dozing”.
This post provides a link to the paper in case you wanted to nod your own head (for whatever reason).
The Reason That It’s 12 Pages
I initially submitted a 6 page paper that intentionally left out any mention of the Centera product. I didn’t want the paper to be rejected due to vendor bias. This first version simply defined XAM and explained its’ applicability to digital curation.
However, the initial paper was rejected due to its lack of concrete implementation details!
I was then asked to resubmit a 12 page draft because the topic was so applicable to digital curation!
The only concrete implementation details that I can speak to are the shipping Centera archive and the released version of the EMC XAM SDK. Adding these items allowed me to prove that XAM is concrete and real.
If there are other vendors that have their own shipping or near-shipping XAM implementations, I’d like to invite them to add their own comments and commentary to the end of my post.
The paper can be found here.
Steve
