Stewart Varner
Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Emory University

Jay Varner
Digital Scholarship Solutions Analyst
Emory University

As scholars are increasingly attracted to the possibilities of creating online resources, the question of hosting becomes more pressing. There are clear advantages to keeping projects in one place, but often institution-based solutions are too restrictive for experimental projects, and private web hosting companies offer some advantages but can be similarly inflexible. To answer this challenge, Emory’s Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) uses Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to develop, host and back-up web-based digital projects that are small in scale and experimental in nature. This presentation reports on some of the issues, challenges, and results of implementing the Amazon system. More information is available at cni.org/topics/scholarly-communication/using-the-amazon-cloud-to-host-digital-scholarship-projects/

Project Briefing Session
Presented at the
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Spring 2013 Membership Meeting
April 4-5, 2013
San Antonio, Texas
cni.org/mm/spring-2013/