Tim -- My perspective:
1) The "LJ article" is a blog post on Roy Tennant's blog. It is
an opinion piece, not a journalistic article.
2) He asks a good question. So what is up with the currency of
content appearing on the Wayback Machine?
3) I disagree that the "unstated target" is Open Library. I
could have written the same blog post. (I'd been meaning to
write a similar post.) Roy is pretty much a straight shooter;
if his intended target had been Open Library, I think he would
have come out and said so.
Peter
On Apr 21, 2010, at 9:39 PM, Tim Spalding wrote:
>
> Roy Tennant just wrote an article about the Wayback Machine's currency.
>
> http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/190054019.html
>
> Tennant's doubt about whether the IA can maintain things "over the
> long haul" has a sharp if unstated target—Open Library. He works for
> OCLC and is one of it's principle public defenders. You can bet your
> bottom dollar he'll use this against IA in the future, in support of
> OCLC's contention that only it should have custodianship of library
> data.
>
> Someone should get back to him.
>
> Tim
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