Re: What is "introduction"?
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] What is "introduction"?
- From: H*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:03:58 EST
In a message dated 1/6/00 10:41:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, cris@netcom.ca
writes:
<< When you really think about it the web publication is as permanent as the
iris catalog, magazine or bulletin thrown in the trash after reading or as
permanent as the one of those publications saved for future reference. For
instance, a 1999 iris catalog from marketer/supplier is not available
indefinitely (whether paper-based or web-based). >>
I'd say an annual catalog which is written to and then later pulled from a
website should to be considered less permanent for documentation and
reference purposes than a hard copy catalog. Certainly the intent of someone
who issues such a catalog and then removes it is not to make the catalog
available for future use.
I do not see that an individual's independent option to discard a hard copy,
or or any other copy, is directly relevant to the issue at hand, but I will
stipulate that anything can happen to original hard copies and all things are
dust in the end, which is why we have archivists and conservators and why
material is copied when it deteriorates physically so it can continue to be
part of the record. But that is entirely different from capturing and
storing a transient web document in an attempt to circumvent its intended
disappearance.
Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com
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