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Investing in digital knowledge

Investing in digital knowledge EDITORIAL Last month I attended two conferences, "Digital Knowledge" in Toronto and "Electronic Visual Arts" (EVA) in Florence, which led me to think more deeply about what kinds of digital objects those of us concerned with cultural heritage information should be creating. At both meetings, most people were discussing ways to capture and provide access to digitized libraries of texts and images which were essentially the kinds of information products that exist in analog libraries, but at each there was at least a glimmer of realization that this was not the right thing to be doing. By the end of the week I was fully convinced that we have been trying to make the wrong digital knowledge and that we need to radically redirect our efforts. At the "Digital Knowledge" conference, the falsifying note was smack by the founders of the Intemet Public Library who insisted that what people wanted was services not digitized resources. At EVA, the death knell to "compile images and texts" or "author multimedia products" was sounded by those who were engineering solutions rather than hand crafting them. Perhaps I can explain. Digital conversion of printed books and photographs produces fast paper; it has some http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives and Museum Informatics Springer Journals

Investing in digital knowledge

Archives and Museum Informatics , Volume 9 (4): 2 – Dec 1, 1995
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Springer Journals
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1995 Archives & Museum Informatics
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1042-1467
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1573-7500
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10.1007/BF02773308
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EDITORIAL Last month I attended two conferences, "Digital Knowledge" in Toronto and "Electronic Visual Arts" (EVA) in Florence, which led me to think more deeply about what kinds of digital objects those of us concerned with cultural heritage information should be creating. At both meetings, most people were discussing ways to capture and provide access to digitized libraries of texts and images which were essentially the kinds of information products that exist in analog libraries, but at each there was at least a glimmer of realization that this was not the right thing to be doing. By the end of the week I was fully convinced that we have been trying to make the wrong digital knowledge and that we need to radically redirect our efforts. At the "Digital Knowledge" conference, the falsifying note was smack by the founders of the Intemet Public Library who insisted that what people wanted was services not digitized resources. At EVA, the death knell to "compile images and texts" or "author multimedia products" was sounded by those who were engineering solutions rather than hand crafting them. Perhaps I can explain. Digital conversion of printed books and photographs produces fast paper; it has some

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Published: Dec 1, 1995

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