Cloud Computing: A Digital Libraries Perspective
Pradeep B. Teregowda, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Clyde Lee Giles · 2010
Provisioning and maintenance of infrastructure for Web based digital library search engines such as CiteSeerxpresent several challenges. CiteSeerxprovides autonomous citation indexing, full text indexing, and extensive document metadata from document scrawled from the web across computer and information sciences and related fields. Infrastructure virtualization and cloud computing are particularly attractive choices for CiteSeerx, which is challenged by both growth in the size of the indexed document collection, new features and most prominently usage. In this paper, we discuss constraints and choices faced by information retrieval systems like CiteSeerxby exploring in detail aspects of placing CiteSeerxinto current cloud infrastructure offerings. We also implement an ad-hoc virtualized storage system for experimenting with adoption of cloud infrastructure services. Our results show that a cloud implementation of CiteSeerxmay be a feasible alternative for its continued operation and growth.