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Not amazing at all. Those bureaucracies spent their time planning, budgeting, arguing, doing studies, etc., while Tom Tryniski just puts the microfilm in the sc
by skookumchuck 8y ago
Not amazing at all. Those bureaucracies spent their time planning, budgeting, arguing, doing studies, etc., while Tom Tryniski just puts the microfilm in the scanner and scans it.
- Lucent 8y agoThat's a neat soundbite, but it's committees, planning, arguing, and meetings that got us the protocols underpinning an open internet that are holding up decades later. Not to discount his work, but wouldn't it be great if he sat down with some people who argued for the best format to store and deliver it?
- skookumchuck 8y agoI talked to a museum archivist about this once. She was obsessed with getting the best scans possible with the best equipment and budget. So no scans at all were done.
- pjc50 8y agoGiven that some book scanning processes are destructive, and the presence of a digital archive may be a pretext to dispose of the physical one, and you'll never get budget to digitise it again .. this may not be the worst decision.
- wgjordan 8y agoDavid D. Clark, Chief Protocol Architect of the development of the Internet in the 1980s, famously wrote this similar neat soundbite: We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
- Kadin 8y agoThe microfilm he's scanning is a government product. He's doing a better job making the output of a government project accessible to the project, but except where he is actually scanning the paper newsprint itself, he is building on the work of others, much of it taxpayer-funded. Credit where credit is due.