The Quintessence of Ham

Zotero’s server infra­struc­ture has evolved in count­less ways since the project’s 2006 launch, but most of those changes are super bor­ing and not worth remem­ber­ing. Over the past two months, how­ever, we moved the bulk of Zotero’s back end to Ama­zon Web Ser­vices, a step that I believe is uniquely note­wor­thy in the con­text of dig­i­tal human­i­ties projects and their long-term sus­tain­abil­ity. In this post I describe the recent changes to Zotero’s archi­tec­ture. In the next post I’ll dis­cuss why these changes are impor­tant for the dig­i­tal human­i­ties. This story is long, but it has a moral, and also a van. » Read the rest of this entry «