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Triage means saving the ones most at risk first.

• ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
  triage means applying effort to where it is most useful, including forgoing something that might be too far gone to save easily in order to save several more things with a better chance at survival
  • cf100clunk 3y ago
    I should have said ''attempting to save''.
• WalterBright 3y ago
  I've had this discussion here before about the HP paper archives. I suggested hiring some students to make snapshots with a phone camera of each page. The general reaction here was horror. Digitizing those papers must be done with a professional archivist, despite the huge cost. Of course, while waiting for budget for a professional archivist to handle them with white gloves and get pixel perfect scans, the archive burned down and 100% of it was lost.
  • washadjeffmad 3y ago
    I don't think many here have had the opportunity to work with or be in charge of preservation and archival. When I offered to 3D scan an artifact repository for a rare books library, they declined after some discussion because as appealing as having space for more books was, they already had the facilities to store the artifacts and make them available, but they did not have the knowledge or budget to create, maintain, and develop a virtual library of the artifacts or to hire people who could. I've deployed collection management platforms for two museums, and the first time I met the person who would operate it, I don't know why I was surprised to learn that they'd gone to college to do exactly and only that. Expertise and authority have meaning outside of tech, and "being good with computers" or a generally smart person isn't a replacement for serving a role in a longstanding and historied field.