[ih] Link rot (was: Museum archiving (was: Re: IENs))

[Joseph Touch]

> On May 8, 2021, at 5:25 PM, John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Unless the original isn’t just the text. For example marginalia, or signatures, accession stamps, etc. Sometimes these things tell you something that goes beyond the content. Some times these things show up in the scanned version, sometimes they don’t.  I have seen cases where it was only seeing the original artifact provided the necessary information. It would not have been apparent in a scan of the material.

For some documents. I scanned a set of IENs at ISI. The vast majority had no such notes.

The question then also becomes - are you archiving the IENs, or “Joe's copy of the IENs, with Joe's notes”. (For some Joe). E.g., handwriting in library books could be of historical value, but also could just be defacing.

Joe

> John
> 
>> On May 8, 2021, at 20:17, Joseph Touch <touch at strayalpha.com <mailto:touch at strayalpha.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, all,
>> 
>>> On May 8, 2021, at 4:27 PM, Dave Walden via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
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>>> It is important to keep an archive of paper copies.
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>> 
>> Newspapers are routinely archived only or primarily as photographic images to save space and overcome the limitations of their original (non-archival) medium. 
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>> For IENs, even that is overkill as most were generated as only ASCII text. There is little if any utility in preserving that representation vs. an ASCII file. (Yes, there were some exceptions with figures, but those could be augmented with scanned image files).
>> 
>> Joe (list admin hat off)
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