----- Original Message ----- From: "jonathan kemp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:54 AM
> archiving is the new black innit > > Not quite sure what Jonathan means by this, but if it's that the conservation and preservation of digital information and artifacts has become a fashionable issue, then I for one am happy about that! There again, I work with libraries and archives, so maybe I'm biased. Non-digital culture has survived astonishingly well - consider the wonderful 5000 year old objects which could be marvelled at in Iraq's musems and libraries up to a few weeks ago, thanks to the efforts of curators, archivists, and (yes!) librarians. Those objects were lost due to the wickedness of George Bush and Tony Blair, but generally these things get lost through carelessness rather than wickedness. Those of us who prefer civilization to barbarism have a duty of eternal vigilance to ensure that cultural evidence survives for the future. Digital conservation and preservation ought to be (and I've no doubt is) a real concern for most people on this list. I won't be attending the conference described in Jonathan's posting, but I certainly support its aims. John ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
