Academic Torrents: A Community-Maintained Distributed RepositoryAcademic Torrents: A Community-Maintained Distributed RepositoryCohen, Joseph Paul and Lo, Henry Z.2014
Paper summaryjoecohenAcademic Torrents is a BitTorrent service that aims to make it easy for academics to share data via BitTorrent. Specific use cases are during competitions where everyone needs access to data quickly. Also, when a dataset is not available anymore the data can be shared from simple desktop computers and become available globally.
Academic Torrents is a BitTorrent service that aims to make it easy for academics to share data via BitTorrent. Specific use cases are during competitions where everyone needs access to data quickly. Also, when a dataset is not available anymore the data can be shared from simple desktop computers and become available globally.