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Its been a doozie!
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My slightly downer take is: how many medieval manuscripts and early modern volumes have hollow spines or baggy spines that can accommodate an endoscope? Most of those volumes would be tight backs, so to use the scope would require separating the layers.
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Video youtu.be/39FMuUGuzZk?...
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The ease of joining an existing platform and some early entry name branding.
I fully support a return to the open blogosphere!
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But the dream of some library providing free, public, web access to every newsletter is an unreasonable dream in today’s copyright regime.
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Everything not specifically preserved will fade into the ether after substack is acquired by private equity and its servers are turned off or left to rot.
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The practical answer is that well-resourced research libraries will pay to access newsletters that fit within the organization’s collecting mission and preserve those in a dark archive until they enter the public domain after the life of the author + 70 years.
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Another answer is that creators need to take personal responsibility for their creations. The important creators will have their materials enter an archive as part of their estate.
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One answer is that libraries and archives can’t preserve everything. Even the world of “endless” digital storage still has a need for curation and long term preservation interventions.
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There are some Substack's being preserved in the Ivy Plus digital collections: archive-it.org/home/IvyPlus...
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Legos!
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Is this a test case for ADA violations?
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Two quick ways to assess the current degree of disruption and recovery are
status of schools
status of hospitals
as someone concerned about cultural resources (museums, libraries, archives, performing arts, and artists) status of schools & hospitals are a useful proxy.
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