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World is impermanent, the internet world magnifies this tenfold. Things will get ever more transient. Accept the impermanence.

• wrongc0ntinent 12y ago
  >>Accept the impermanence. You're talking extremes, which is a little funny considering the time scales of all the links in the chain: artifact/art (millennia to centuries), museums (centuries to decades), google inc (?).
  • rpd9803 12y ago
    It is a shame google is aiming at Institutions that don't have the resources to know better than to trust them.. meanwhile their usage rights exists in perpetuity.. not simply for duration of the project..
• acdha 12y ago
  > World is impermanent, the internet world magnifies this tenfold. Things will get ever more transient. You do realize that we're talking about institutions dedicated to preserving history, right? People work in cultural heritage are justly concerned not only with preserving the physical artifact but making it easy to access. For people in this field “future” usually means decades or centuries, a few business quarters. If they spend time promoting a Google service, they're not building their own presence or the capacity needed to support it — if Google gets tired of paying for this and all of those links break, there's nothing to show for the time they're investing now.