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Digital Future of the Library of Congress
lesinator writes "On Monday the 28th the US Library of Congress
is holding the eighth lecture in its series on
Managing Knowledge
and Creativity in a Digital Context. Previous speakers include
David Weinberger on blogging,
Brewster Kahle -
founding member
of archive.org and the wayback machine, and
Lawrence Lessig on intellectual
property
and the creative commons. After the lecture questions will be taken from the audience and the internet. C-Span
will be broadcasting the lecture
live at 6:30 PM EST, and also has
archives of previous lectures. Audio archives of previous lecture are available at Audible.com in the Selected Free Media section."
We'll know just how much storage really is required to hold the Library of Congress.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
How long is it going to take to digitize the entire library?
Anyone have a good approximation? I'd like to know in Burning Libraries of Congress (BLC) please.
I'm guessing somewhere around 10-200 BLC.
C-SPAN is clearly concerned with ratings. Didn't you see the stuff they pulled out for Sweeps week? I think it was something like "old guy reading boring text to empty room."
"Managing Knowledge and Creativity with DRM"...
Sponsored by Apple and Microsoft!
Sounds like college to me.
But how are we going to measure asteroids and meteors now that the larger imperial unit (Libraries of Congress) is going to get smallers? Will we have to fall back to the smaller unit (VW Beetles) for all of them now?
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
The LOC has announced that they are accepting volunteers to digitize texts. Their first volunteer is Earl the night janitor, who has been busily keying in the last 20 years of New York City phone books. He hopes to move on to Chicago soon.
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q