Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Like the BBC, the UK Government and others, they’re interested in the opportunities created by adoption of Linked Data, and will be issuing a call to fund some projects in the space early next year.
As part of the process, I was asked to prepare a short report and some recommendations for activity across the sector.
A draft of that report is now available, and both JISC staff and myself would welcome any comments that you might have before we finalise the document. I should stress – several times – that this document is a draft, and that its recommendations have not been endorsed by JISC.
About Paul Miller Paul Miller works at the interface between the worlds of Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web, providing the insights that enable you to exploit the next wave as we approach the World Wide Database. He blogs at www.cloudofdata.com.
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