Cloud Applications in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)

In this session, we give an overview of what a cloud is generally, as well as the Digital Research Alliance of Canada cloud specifically. To demonstrate what may be accomplished with a cloud, different cloud usage cases for the humanities and social sciences are presented followed by a discussion of two common methods for website generation, a common use for the cloud. We finish with a brief discussion of server security and the implications it has for the two methods presented for creating websites.

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