January 30, 2004
The Uncertain Fate of Scholarly Artifacts in a Digital Age
Obsolete systems threaten scholarship, even as technology promises a new research eraDeena Larsen talks enthusiastically about her collection of electronically linked poems, Marble Springs, stopping now and then to emphasize that it is not lost to history. Not yet, anyway.
The historian Roy Rosenzweig thinks often about the Clinton administration's e-mailing habits -- six million messages a year, all of them now part of a daunting record of the past.
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