Is society becoming bound and gagged by overzealous licencing? Will our culture be hamstrung by copyright? There’s cause for concern… Thanks to my friend Catherine Wilson for sending me a link to this article by Lawrence Lessig: For the Love of Culture: Google, copyright, and our future
Posts Tagged ‘preservation’
Licenced to Kill…Culture
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged access, Copyright & Intellectual Property, Google, libraries, preservation on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Farming in the Digital Age
Posted in digital collections, tagged digital collections, information, preservation, technology on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a digital collection for EveryMan: a place of preservation and dissemination of the images, stories and humor of rural farm life in Ohio. The digitial divide still exists, but the point of crossing over–where analog culture first embraces the digital–is a facinating place.
Preservation
Posted in digital collections, tagged archaeology, digital collections, preservation, technology on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In her article “Eternal Bits,” Mackenzie Smith discusses the ephemeral nature of digital formats, explaining, “In an era when the ability to read a document, watch a video, or run a simulation could depend on having a particular version of a program installed on a specific computer platform, the usable life span of a piece [...]
Digital Archaeology?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged archaeology, preservation, T-shirts, tattoos on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the articles I read last week (can’t remember which) made me wonder what will be left of today’s culture 1,000 years from now. Will archaeologists dig for fragments of our history in ancient PC hard-drives? As GUIs and applications evolve ever more quickly, how much personal data will be left behind in defunct, inaccessible [...]
