Dear list: For those of you who did not attend the New Media and Social Symposium about preserving digital art at the Berkeley Art Museum last week, CNet just released an article about it: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6151389.html - "Digital archivists look to porn, Flash for tips" (yes, the article is much more than just its title, and thus I forward it to the list as a link of interest)
<soapbox> Of course, this was picked up by BoingBoing as "Web art archivists look to porn for guidance." I would like to note that although the topic of looking to the porn industry as leaders in distributed archiving is a clever and interesting model (in my opinion), that particular suggestion was presented in *one or two* sentences near the end of a long day. Perhaps the other lesson we could learn from the pornography industry is that in order to increase the visibility of our work, we merely need to invoke the dreaded "P-word" </soapbox> -- Perian Sully Collection Database and Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 510-549-6950 x 335
