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"A company would have to provide the service, and I suggested to Mr Cerf that few companies have lasted for hundreds of years." Maybe it's just that I'm an aca
by Steuard 12y ago
"A company would have to provide the service, and I suggested to Mr Cerf that few companies have lasted for hundreds of years."
Maybe it's just that I'm an academic, but this sounds less like a job for a company and more like a job for a library. (Or more robustly, a job for the world's interconnected network of libraries.) The whole point that I take from this article is "we must preserve our heritage for the common good", and that sounds awfully close to a library's core mission.
- mcantelon 12y agoLibrarians and archivists are working on this challenge, yes. I work for a company (Artefactual Systems) that, informed by the work being done in academia, develops open source tools related to this (extracting metadata about digital content, etc.).
- higherpurpose 12y agoEver since Vint Cerf started working for Google, I've been less than impressed with his speeches. His speeches have taken a pretty obvious turn towards promoting stuff that's good for Google, rather than people per se. He's now basically saying "You're all going to lose your data...better give it to Google to save it for you!".
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoIt's the kind of thing that the Internet Archive (which is a library) would do.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoUnfortunately, libraries (and museums and other cultural institutions) nowdays are forced to compete on the market - which erodes their ability to preserve and give access to our cultural heritage. If this trend continues, soon there won't be any functional difference between a library and a company.
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