A number of short courses, from DSTC's Training Programme , are combined and offered as a five-day event at no cost to students at Monash University. The Monash Winter School 2000 will be held during the week of the 3rd - 7th July. Students will be treated to the expertise of our own DSTC presenters recognised worldwide in cutting edge fields of research.
Building distributed systems is a complex task.
Achieving interoperability between different hardware and software platforms is a daunting challenge. While both systems have their advantages, each has their limitations. This session will outline the basic architectures and development stages of each system and then highlight some of their major similarities and differences. Metadata will be an important component of future digital resource management solutions. Presented by David Arnold After studying computer science at the Queensland University of Technology and University of Queensland, David worked in the commercial IT industry.