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Sometimes in the line of archival duty, we do strange things including acting as a projectionist. I

Post author By joshuakitchens
Post date 2011-04-15

Thursday: Georgia College Museum. One reason I chose this building is because this week it’s h

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Post date 2011-04-14

Wednesday: Georgia College Museum. Technical difficulties prevented this from being posted. The muse

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Post date 2011-04-14

Tuesday:Georgia College Museum This building was the first library building for the college, and thi

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Post date 2011-04-12

Monday: GC Museum This week’s building it the Georgia College Museum. The GC Museum is technic

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Post date 2011-04-11

Friday: Courthouse I’ve always loved how life tends to juxtapose things. Here we have a corner

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Post date 2011-04-08

Thursday: Courthouse Courthouse can be sites of remembrance, but they are known more as sites of act

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Post date 2011-04-07

Wednesday: Courthouse The courthouses have always been sites of memory. Ours is no exception. Memori

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Post date 2011-04-06

Usually, us archivist spend sleepless night worrying about copyright, but I propose that we should follow patents as well. The vast patent portfolio of the bankrupt Nortel company has been in limbo for a while now. The big tech companies, like Apple and now Google, have been circling the sinking carcass for months. Each getting ready to pounce and tear into the vast patent meat. The bidders have many reasons for doing this, protecting themselves from future lawsuits is Google’s supposed main reason, but use archivist should know about these patents as well. Digital records are the future of archives, but its important to know how those records were created. To do this we need to learn about the underlying architecture of computers, software and other pieces of technology. Much of that architecture can be found in patents. Who ever controls the patents controls the technology and, in some respects, controls how records are created. While patents don’t last as long as copyright, keeping track of which company controls which technology will help archivist understand the process of digital record creation, which in turn will help us preserve these records

Post author By joshuakitchens
Post date 2011-04-06

Nortel Patents

Web magazines with video give me a headache because I dont know how best to capture them.

Post author By joshuakitchens
Post date 2011-04-06

Web magazines with video give me a headache because I dont know how best to capture them.