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archivists-request@...
May 2, 2000 11:51 pm
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IT IS NOT TOO EARLY to register for the 9th International Technology, Meetings and Incentives Conference to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on October 26-29,...
cimpa@...
Jun 15, 2000 6:02 pm
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Greetings all, As a new subscriber to the list I tried to access the archivists archives and was informed that there currently are no archives available. Is...
L.H. Grant
lhgrant@...
Jul 19, 2000 5:30 pm
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Lee, Until your email I'd forgotten the list even existed. Perhaps just to start something I'll describe a little bit of what our library is trying to do in...
Electronic Informatio...
xlib@...
Jul 20, 2000 6:46 pm
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Well, I think I discovered one possible reason for the limited postings on this forum. It appears that the default email address when reply is used is the...
L.H. Grant
lhgrant@...
Jul 20, 2000 6:52 pm
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L.H. -- thanks for noticing the bug. Here's a repost to the full list! ... Perhaps so, which means that I get to be the second. :-) But seriously, there really...
Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Jul 20, 2000 10:57 pm
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Bryn, good to hear from you, I just downloaded webstripper and it worked fine. I am trying to find a way to archive websites, much like you do, to be viewed by...
Harry Verwayen
harry@...
Jul 20, 2000 11:29 pm
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Hello all Bryn Deamer asked if there were other similar projects to his at the Baha'i World Centre Library, so I thought I'd point out PANDORA at the National ...
Deborah Woodyard
Dwoodyar@...
Jul 21, 2000 4:53 pm
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Hello! We are working bringing library, archive and museum information on the web in XML format - storing everything in a Tamino XML database server...
Bob Mulrenin
bob.mulrenin@...
Jul 21, 2000 4:54 pm
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... This e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the...
Richard Wright-ARCHIVES
richard.wright@...
Jul 21, 2000 4:58 pm
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... Why not use a tool that looks like the CVS system? http://www.cyclic.com/CVS/index_html (note that CVS is not really intended to save graphics- so you...
Charles MacDonald
cmacd@...
Jul 24, 2000 3:50 am
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Harry, I'll answer the easiest question: "Another thing is how do you know when a site has been updated? Are there tools that can notify you when that happens...
Electronic Informatio...
xlib@...
Jul 24, 2000 3:51 am
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Friends, In response to Lee's comments I threw out a "fishing net" and pulled in a small but varied catch. 1. Aaron Swartz wrote of "the work of the Internet...
Electronic Informatio...
xlib@...
Jul 24, 2000 3:52 am
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The first version of this note, starting below the horizontal line, went erroneously to Bryn Deamer rather than the archivists' listserv. Deamer replied, ...
gladney@...
Jul 24, 2000 3:53 am
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... Not a bad choce. Most web formats have viewers on Unix.. ... (Lots of security holes?) ... Hate to say it, but Microsoft formats change too often to ever...
Charles MacDonald
cmacd@...
Jul 24, 2000 3:54 am
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... Well, the website says the list is for "discussion on Internet libraries" which is rather broad. Perhaps the Internet Archive could work out a distributed...
Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Jul 24, 2000 5:12 pm
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I see references to EADs and XML, expect more alphabet soup to shortly be posted, and am reminded of Alexander Pope's caution: A little knowledge is a...
gladney@...
Jul 24, 2000 5:13 pm
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You have discovered us! Yes, it is the Internet Archive which hosts this discussion list. For those who are not familiar with us, please go to www.archive.org...
Marlita Kahn
marlita@...
Jul 24, 2000 11:34 pm
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Hi friends, Glad to see this list is being revived -- I remain deeply committed to the idea that information should be archived on the web and am glad to see...
Kim Alexander
kimalex@...
Jul 25, 2000 12:14 am
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I have read Brewster Kahle's article "Archiving the Internet" which was submitted to Scientific American over three years ago ...
L.H. Grant
lhgrant@...
Jul 25, 2000 12:21 am
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This is just an aside that seems relevant; it's an item from the July 2000 issue of newsletter I publish at the URL in the sig below, which is reportedly being...
Nelson Winkless
correspo@...
Jul 25, 2000 12:39 am
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: -- Alexander Pope (poet) If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the...
John Bangsund
bangsund@...
Jul 25, 2000 12:49 am
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... PANDORA is a regular part of the NLA's work and therefore does not have a separately allocated budget so I can't give you a figure on that. We have a ...
Deborah Woodyard
Dwoodyar@...
Jul 25, 2000 2:05 am
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Aaron - In response to your query regarding the Internet Archive collection, the website is still accurate. We primarily collect ASCII.txt. In the past four...
Gail Feldman
gail@...
Jul 25, 2000 2:14 am
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... Which reminds me that some time ago I came accross an article (which I have now mislaid) that discussed the concept of saving digitial items as dots on...
Electronic Informatio...
xlib@...
Jul 25, 2000 5:11 pm
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... Deborah, this sound like good progress, because Philip's article in the Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/phillips.html...
Electronic Informatio...
xlib@...
Jul 25, 2000 5:24 pm
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To answer myself - "Digital paper" see --http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/news/trends/t990304b.html although here it is said to look like "tiny diagonal...
Electronic Informatio...
xlib@...
Jul 25, 2000 5:42 pm
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Hello all - I am researching a short article on the development of toy-train related webpages for the Toy Train Paper and Memorabilia collectors newsletter. ...
Gregory A. Johnson
gjohnso2@...
Jul 25, 2000 6:20 pm
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... Thanks for the tip - I've downloaded it to read. [snip] ... Lee - All I can say is that I'm banking on people like Deborah, Henry and Bob to hack their way...
Electronic Informatio...
xlib@...
Jul 25, 2000 6:49 pm
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In a message dated 7/24/00 8:23:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, correspo@... writes: << I'm not an archivist, but am much intrigued by the problems of saving...