19-09-2014, 02:35 PM
Abstracts: Information technology has changed the world and acts as an important tool for retrieving information. Electronic resources have become the vital part of human life in 21st century. “E-Resource for Educational Institute” provides study materials in digital format using cloud storage server. Cloud Computing is the convergence and evolution of several concepts from virtualization , distributed application design , Grid and enterprise IT management to enable more flexible approach for deploying and scaling applications. Cloud storage is used to bring down the cost of storage as low as possible, meet the peak time server crashes while accessing petabytes of storage , seamless access of data, provide authenticated and authorized data transfer. The main features of the system are 'registering' a user, 'login' with valid username (google account authentication is also supported), 'upload' and 'download' various e-study materials, 'search' an e-resource using keywords, set up an 'interest list' while registering, 'follow/unfollow' a user to gain access to more and more e-resources from the users having similar interests, 'posting views' on 'My Timeline', view 'profile', changing user details through 'Settings' option and 'logout' of the account. E-Resource for Educational Institute is a public cloud based Application(SAAS) which will be deployed on Google App Engine.