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mostly links, a few thoughts. Lawrence Lessig, librarything, Major league baseball, Stephen Colbert
Some library, book, archives, records, baseball fandom, and government information musings and links just so I can clear the tabs out of my browser again:
1. On the Colbert Report couple of days ago, a video clip of George McGovern speechifying in his youth was credited to "youtube.com". Dear Colbert staff: I can fully expect that even with what must be the massive archives at your disposal, for something relatively obscure youtube is the fastest resource for you to find a video you need. However, you do not credit it to what is effectively the ISP which is hosting the data. You figure out who owns the stolen clip which you found on youtube, and you credit them. Thank you.
2. The National Archives and Records Administration warned the Bush administration that it e-mail archival method was at risk in 2004, and it has not yet been addressed. To be fair, this is a really hard problem. They will almost certainly be a decade or two of lost records around the world as we negotiate the period between everybody's communication going digital and archivists coming up with effective ways of managing that digital information.
3. The National Science Digital Library's funding as a research project is winding down. This is something I have been talking about for awhile. Digital libraries and digitization projects are being funded as research projects. The NSDL was funded by NSF grants. Once the NSDL had proven itself, it was no longer a research project per se -- and yet it is a very successful, very important project which (1) should continue to exist in perpetuity like most academic digital projects, and which (2) will never, ever, be self-supporting. This article talks about ways in which the NSDL can rebrand itself as still a research project, but that's only a stopgap solution. Ultimately, we need to come up with funding mechanisms for all of these digitization projects or they can continue to exist in perpetuity, as their implicit contracts with end users require.
4. Do prisoners have a right to read what they want? A disturbing article about the legal issues behind denying newspapers do prisoners.
5. Bipartisan worries about government spying on citizen Web traffic. Oh, Tor, you are worth the slowness.
6. Tim Spalding draws some interesting conclusions based on the locations of libraries and bookstores around metropolitan areas.
7. Major League Baseball wants to prohibit or limit blogging about games because it infringes on their exclusive right to describe the game. Some people have a lot to learn about fandom and how it makes them money.
8. Interesting post by Lessig discussing wisdom of crowds talks about using the wisdom of crowds instead of empiricism to resolve otherwise verifiable questions of fact. In my mind, this is related to the myth of the fair and balanced, in which one believes that if you represent both sides the truth necessarily lies somewhere in between.
1. On the Colbert Report couple of days ago, a video clip of George McGovern speechifying in his youth was credited to "youtube.com". Dear Colbert staff: I can fully expect that even with what must be the massive archives at your disposal, for something relatively obscure youtube is the fastest resource for you to find a video you need. However, you do not credit it to what is effectively the ISP which is hosting the data. You figure out who owns the stolen clip which you found on youtube, and you credit them. Thank you.
2. The National Archives and Records Administration warned the Bush administration that it e-mail archival method was at risk in 2004, and it has not yet been addressed. To be fair, this is a really hard problem. They will almost certainly be a decade or two of lost records around the world as we negotiate the period between everybody's communication going digital and archivists coming up with effective ways of managing that digital information.
3. The National Science Digital Library's funding as a research project is winding down. This is something I have been talking about for awhile. Digital libraries and digitization projects are being funded as research projects. The NSDL was funded by NSF grants. Once the NSDL had proven itself, it was no longer a research project per se -- and yet it is a very successful, very important project which (1) should continue to exist in perpetuity like most academic digital projects, and which (2) will never, ever, be self-supporting. This article talks about ways in which the NSDL can rebrand itself as still a research project, but that's only a stopgap solution. Ultimately, we need to come up with funding mechanisms for all of these digitization projects or they can continue to exist in perpetuity, as their implicit contracts with end users require.
4. Do prisoners have a right to read what they want? A disturbing article about the legal issues behind denying newspapers do prisoners.
5. Bipartisan worries about government spying on citizen Web traffic. Oh, Tor, you are worth the slowness.
6. Tim Spalding draws some interesting conclusions based on the locations of libraries and bookstores around metropolitan areas.
7. Major League Baseball wants to prohibit or limit blogging about games because it infringes on their exclusive right to describe the game. Some people have a lot to learn about fandom and how it makes them money.
8. Interesting post by Lessig discussing wisdom of crowds talks about using the wisdom of crowds instead of empiricism to resolve otherwise verifiable questions of fact. In my mind, this is related to the myth of the fair and balanced, in which one believes that if you represent both sides the truth necessarily lies somewhere in between.