JSTOR: Access Check
libraries are the only institutions to have long-term preservation of important societal information as part of its expected function.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Research publications are some of the world’s most important repositories for content and information ever created. They tie ideas and findings together across time and disciplines, and are forever preserved by a network of libraries. They are supported by evidence, analysis, expert insight, and statistical relationships. They are extremely valuabl... See more
Josh Nicholson • How to Build a GPT-3 for Science
Johanna added
one of the significant roles of libraries is the long-term preservation of what is deemed important societal information and records.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
(If you do not have a subscription or do not have the means to get one, type archive.is/newest/ right before the URL of the article. Again, I am not encouraging this! Just putting it out there that internet archives exist ).
Elle • longform articles & essays 101
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later.
More of our information will become written and curated by AI whose data provenance is unknown.
We heritage may be lost as pages die and never reach search indexes of language models
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/
MargaretC added
The web has an almost infinite capacity for storage and memory yet its prevailing use is an acceleration of ephemerality. The reasons for this are complex to say the least (of which financial short term gain is probably the most prevalent). But this doesn’t mean the tendency can’t be resisted. Perhaps books as well as their online s
... See moreFolkert Gorter • Clippings by Folkert Gorter
sari and added
Studying how a community relates to the passage of time can, after all, offer a window into a culture’s values and lifeways, and reveal how societies hash out relationships between the presently living and those yet unborn who may inhabit the distant future.
Vincent Ialenti • Keeping Time Into the Great Beyond | NOEMA
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