RE: [xml-dev] XML Conference archives

[David Lee <dlee@calldei.com>]

This really is a key point about the internet.
By its very nature the relationships between URI, URL, and availability are transient.

Where do we turn to when we want  a real long lasting document identifier and some measure of commitment to archival ?
Unfortunately that is not what the internet really is ... but it is what  its often used for ... arg.


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David A. Lee
dlee@calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 11:51 AM
> To: John Cowan
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XML Conference archives
> 
> John Cowan writes:
> 
> > Henry S. Thompson scripsit:
> >
> >> FAQ, perhaps. . . Anyone know of an online archive of papers from the
> >> GCA/IDEAlliance XML conference series?
> >> . . .
> >
> > The Internet Archive is your friend here.
> 
> Ah yes -- I use it regularly, but somehow didn't think of it in the
> context of producing the references for an academic paper.  I wonder
> what the acceptability of Archive references will be in times to
> come. . .
> 
> <uninformed_possibly_misinformed_speculation>The Internet Archive has
> quasi-NGO-status by now, in that I believe there is some more-or-less
> official agreement in place giving them some form of special status
> wrt copyright, possibility in return for being willing to curtail
> access in some cases on
> request. . .</uninformed_possibly_misinformed_speculation>.
> 
> ht
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