Dear all,
Think libraries, think digital repositories, submit your material to one of those great (mostly public) institutions that have 'digital preservation' written in their mission statements!
Best regards,
Jan Haspeslagh
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Van: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Charles Sturm
Verzonden: dinsdag 8 oktober 2013 15:20
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Onderwerp: Re: [CONCH-L] Don't want to be morbid but>>>>
Carole,
This is an important question not only impacting webpages but also digital publishing. While I have no doubt that major sites and publications, backed by big money, will survive, what will happen to those sites that are not backed by big money or publications that are sponsored by a small society or club?
I have already seen some very good medical informatics sites disappear.
While their medical content may have become dated, their way of looking at things and analyzing them is something that will not change. However, these sites no longer exist and this info is lost.
Having written a biography of Juan Jose Parodiz, late curator of invertebrate zoology at the Carnegie Museum, I depended greatly on his archived publications, notes, and correspondences. In this e-mail era (and future), I'm not sure what will be available for historians to research the background of individuals and history in general.
Recently, I was trying to access Henk Dijkstra's website. Unfortunately it was offline. Luckily, there were some archived copies in the WayBack machine <http://archive.org/web/web.php>. This is a site where, if you know the URL, you can search for snapshots take of websites. I was able to find the info that I needed on a recent snapshot of Dijkstra's website.
Unfortunately, a website creator can request(?) prevent(?) his site from being copied. I found this out when I tried to find one of my bookmaked medical sites and it stated that the sites history was removed at the webmasters request. The other catch is that you need the URL to find a site.
Thus, while not perfect, WayBack Machine may prove useful in the future, as long as big money supports it! :-)
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> Hi all, This is actually directed to the best webmasters on shells in
> the world. Bill Frank, Marlo Krisberg and Eddy Hardy, Marion , Arne
> etc etc.and all of you who work so hard on webpages. What happens
> later? After accessing the fantastic web sites you all so
> painstakingly provide for our knowledge, what happens when you croak,
> kick off, whatever light hearted terms can be used to say leave our
> earthly planet. Will future generations be bereft of your incredible
> knowledge. Will the websites stay in cyberspace forever? Will my
> grandchildren be able to look at my notes that say Jaxshells.org and look up something? Are you training acolytes?
> It would break my heart to think of your hard work dying with you and
> yet, no one gets out of this world alive. I would like to think an
> exception will be made in my own personal case, but doubt this will
> occur.
> Carole
>
Regards,
Charlie
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Charlie Sturm
Treasurer
American Malacological Society
Research Associate - Section of Mollusks Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Associate Professor - Family Medicine
Fellow-American Academy of Family Practice Fellow-Academy of Wilderness Medicine
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