So, um, those who spend more time training their perceptual systems to track and identify objects are better at tracking and identifying objects? Next thing you know, they'll start telling us that spending more time reading makes people better at reading...
A connected campus is a great idea. A paperless one is both misguided and unrealistic. Not only is there a HUGE legacy of paper materials that wouldn't be cost-effective to digitize, but paper also provides numerous affordances that digital media (at least for now) do not. Looks like someone over there needs to read The Myth of the Paperless Office.
Oh, wait. I forgot, they won't have any books.
At least there's a lot of online material about the challenges of digital preservation that they might want to peruse.
From a preservation perspective, the problem is not too little raw material, but too much. We are swimming in massive amounts of information with very little sense of which parts should be preserved over time.
Long-term preservation of digital materials is extremely resource-intensive, largely due to issues of hardware and software obsolescence. The problem is picking out the gems and keeping them accessible into the future, not needing to send more out-takes to the archives.
XML can be preferable to an RDBMS for storage when long-term preservation is a goal. Store the preservation copy of the data in XML, then use other more efficient formats for immediate processing needs. The San Diego Supercomputer Center has done some work in this direction. If I want someone to be able to access data 50 years from now, I'm much more worried about software depedence than performance.
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So, um, those who spend more time training their perceptual systems to track and identify objects are better at tracking and identifying objects? Next thing you know, they'll start telling us that spending more time reading makes people better at reading...
A connected campus is a great idea. A paperless one is both misguided and unrealistic. Not only is there a HUGE legacy of paper materials that wouldn't be cost-effective to digitize, but paper also provides numerous affordances that digital media (at least for now) do not. Looks like someone over there needs to read The Myth of the Paperless Office. Oh, wait. I forgot, they won't have any books. At least there's a lot of online material about the challenges of digital preservation that they might want to peruse.
Man with too much money has finally accomplished a completely useless feat after only 5 previous attempts to do so.
What a great day for humanity.
I'll fly on the plane with the cheap seats and good service, provided there's a good safety record.
Um, doesn't it need to be in operation for a while to have a good safety record?
From a preservation perspective, the problem is not too little raw material, but too much. We are swimming in massive amounts of information with very little sense of which parts should be preserved over time.
Long-term preservation of digital materials is extremely resource-intensive, largely due to issues of hardware and software obsolescence. The problem is picking out the gems and keeping them accessible into the future, not needing to send more out-takes to the archives.
XML can be preferable to an RDBMS for storage when long-term preservation is a goal. Store the preservation copy of the data in XML, then use other more efficient formats for immediate processing needs. The San Diego Supercomputer Center has done some work in this direction. If I want someone to be able to access data 50 years from now, I'm much more worried about software depedence than performance.