Tag Archive for "Service" | IICloud(s) – Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s)

B) Cloud of Cards Processing Library

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Interaction Design, Projects, Schools, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0155, Automation, B, Cloud, Code, Data, ECAL, Library, Open source, Programming, Service, Storage, Tools, Visualization Permalink 0

Project developed by Christian Babski (fabric | ch)

Cloud of Cards Processing Library consists in the unification of three different API dedicated to online files and folders manipulation and the development of an additional fourth one specific to the needs of the Cloud of Cards kit and the Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s) research project. The overall final package has been adapted to the Processing development language and linked to the open-source cloud software ownCloud.

Additional behaviors are included that can also be used in relation to ownCloud (or Nextcloud), for both its server and clients. These additional functions are the implemented results of the design research process, linked to an ethnographic study about the cloud user experience.

Through the use of this new library written in Processing and linked to other open-source tools, it is now easier for a wider public to experiment, sketch and develop alternative interfaces, visual or physical applications for the cloud. In particular, the communities of designers and makers that are used to the Processing language.

B) Cloud of Cards Processing Library, cookbook only: recipes and other elements

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Resources, Schools, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0154, Automation, Cloud, Code, Data, ECAL, Library, Makers, Open source, Programming, Service, Storage, Tools, Visualization Permalink 0

Please find below the necessary recipes, blueprints and information for the Cloud of Cards Processing Library project.

Download Cloud of Cards Processing Library manual (PDF).

Download Cloud of Cards Processing Library on Github. Codes, recipes, how-to, instructions & forks.

You can also:

Install ownCloud server (for Linux) & client (or Nextcloud, optional).

Install Processing.

C) 5 Folders Cloud

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Interaction Design, Projects, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0153, Automation, Behavior, C, Cloud, Computing, ECAL, Service, Software, Storage Permalink 0

Project developed by Christian Babski (fabric | ch)

5 Folders Cloud is a software implementation (among many possible) of the Cloud of Cards Processing Library and exemplifies its use, server and software side. It is a version of ownCloud with automated behaviors and cascades of events, in particular when linked to the 5 Connected Objects. As a matter of fact, this variation on the cloud combines a client-server architecture with a distributed, almost horizontal peer-to-peer approach.

Linked to the results of the research project’s ethnographic research on the uses of the cloud, 5 Folders Cloud translates in the form of five verbs of action the various identified motivations that seem to push users to drop files and data into this technological setup. These verbs in turn become the main functions and names of five synchronized cloud folders that serve the various files interactions. Each of these folders automates digital procedures linked to these motivations.

C) 5 Folders Cloud, cookbook only: recipes and other elements

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Resources, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0152, Automation, Behavior, Cloud, Computing, ECAL, Makers, Service, Software, Storage, Tools Permalink 0

Please find below the necessary recipes, blueprints and information for the 5 Folders Cloud project.

Install ownCloud client.

Look for, Subscribe and syndicate to one or many 5 Folders Cloud (recipes, how-to & instructions included).

Datadroppers, a communal tool to drop off and/or pick up data (and then develop projects)

By Patrick Keller Thursday, October 8, 2015 Projects, Resources, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0111, Clouds, D, Data, Open source, Service, Sharing, Tools, Web Permalink 0

Note: fabric | ch, one of our partner on this project, has developed an open source data sharing tool that tries to simplify the procedures of declaring/logging and sharing data (from “connected sensor things”, mainly). This is Datadroppers. The service is somehow similar, yet slightly more versatile than the now vanished Pachube, or the contemporary, but proprietary, Dweet.io (that we’ve already mentioned in the resources section of this blog).

One of the interesting points in this case is that the new web service has been created by designers/coders that are themselves in need of such data service for their own work, promising in some ways that it won’t be commodified.

The other interesting point is the fact that they are formally involved in this design research project as well (through Christian Babski, developer), which should help us match the functions of Datadroppers with OwnCloud: through the use of the documented OwnCloud Core Processing Library and the one of Datadroppers, new paradigms and artifacts in file/data sharing and cloud operations could be envisioned, implemented and tested.

But moreover and mainly, projects made by the design community could be developed that will take advantages of the open resources of Processing (later on, Javascipt as well), OwnCloud and these libraries. Designing tools remains one of the goals of this design research project. Designing artifacts that will use these (improved) tools will be the work of the coming year in our design research…

Via fabric | rblg, via datadroppers.org

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