Comments on: Four: Preservation http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:10:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Publishing News: Week in Review – O’Reilly Radar | Write Your Own E-book http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/#comment-3321 Publishing News: Week in Review – O’Reilly Radar | Write Your Own E-book Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:46:03 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=144#comment-3321 [...] are experiments in academia as well. It’s only a matter of time before marginalia processes [...] [...] are experiments in academia as well. It’s only a matter of time before marginalia processes [...]

]]> By: Kathleen Fitzpatrick http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/#comment-1474 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Wed, 26 May 2010 03:08:53 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=144#comment-1474 Wow - that's astonishing.  How kind of them to provide an upgrade! Here's hoping that incidents like this one will force Amazon and other such content distributors to develop new processes for maintaining the currency of their texts. Wow – that’s astonishing.  How kind of them to provide an upgrade!

Here’s hoping that incidents like this one will force Amazon and other such content distributors to develop new processes for maintaining the currency of their texts.

]]> By: Fred Moody http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/#comment-1473 Fred Moody Wed, 26 May 2010 00:57:36 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=144#comment-1473 Your "flash in the pan" passage brings to mind what happened to me only this morning: Amazon emailed me that they had sent my Kindle an updated and corrected copy of Sarah Vowell's <em>The Wordy Shipmates</em>, without warning. Gone were my annotations, along with the version of the book I'd read. It no longer existed in Kindle edition form. Amazon apologized--an telling approach to announcing that a "service" or "improvement" had just been delivered. Your “flash in the pan” passage brings to mind what happened to me only this morning: Amazon emailed me that they had sent my Kindle an updated and corrected copy of Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates, without warning. Gone were my annotations, along with the version of the book I’d read. It no longer existed in Kindle edition form. Amazon apologized–an telling approach to announcing that a “service” or “improvement” had just been delivered.

]]> By: Kathleen Fitzpatrick http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/#comment-142 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:43:34 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=144#comment-142 Thanks for the reference! Thanks for the reference!

]]> By: Kathleen Fitzpatrick http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/#comment-141 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:43:03 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=144#comment-141 Oh, of course -- that definitely needs to come in here. Oh, of course — that definitely needs to come in here.

]]> By: Dorothea Salo http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/#comment-112 Dorothea Salo Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:18:18 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=144#comment-112 Is there room somewhere in this discussion to point out that there is an immense (in terms of staff, space, and cost) infrastructure in place already to preserve print? That this structure is entirely invisible to most people, even people heavily involved in print culture? (How many people have been inside a book conservation lab? A bindery?) That the existence of this infrastructure seriously calls into question the idea that ink-on-paper is automatically more durable than bits on hard drive? Is there room somewhere in this discussion to point out that there is an immense (in terms of staff, space, and cost) infrastructure in place already to preserve print? That this structure is entirely invisible to most people, even people heavily involved in print culture? (How many people have been inside a book conservation lab? A bindery?) That the existence of this infrastructure seriously calls into question the idea that ink-on-paper is automatically more durable than bits on hard drive?

]]> By: Dorothea Salo http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/#comment-107 Dorothea Salo Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:26:46 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=144#comment-107 David Drake's <em>Overdue Notice: Poems from the Library</em> has a charming short poem about analog and digital format permanence. Recommended, possibly as an epigraph for this chapter! David Drake’s Overdue Notice: Poems from the Library has a charming short poem about analog and digital format permanence. Recommended, possibly as an epigraph for this chapter!

]]> By: kari kraus http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/#comment-65 kari kraus Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:50:32 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=144#comment-65 The note of resolve in these sentences strikes me as critical: "We absolutely must not throw up our hands at that realization, however, and declare the problem intractable; we can and should take steps today to ensure that texts and artifacts produced and preserved under today’s systems remain interoperable with or portable to the systems of tomorrow." Rhetorically this is an important move (given the accelerated rate of technological obsolescence documented in prior sentences) in the way it disarms defeatist thinking about digital preservation. The note of resolve in these sentences strikes me as critical:

“We absolutely must not throw up our hands at that realization, however, and declare the problem intractable; we can and should take steps today to ensure that texts and artifacts produced and preserved under today’s systems remain interoperable with or portable to the systems of tomorrow.”

Rhetorically this is an important move (given the accelerated rate of technological obsolescence documented in prior sentences) in the way it disarms defeatist thinking about digital preservation.

]]> By: amandafrench http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/#comment-38 amandafrench Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:15:03 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=144#comment-38 Such a nice sly educational moment: "ostensibly intangible." Computers, after all, are not magic. Such a nice sly educational moment: “ostensibly intangible.” Computers, after all, are not magic.

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