According Marcos Ros-Martín, the first web surfers suffering from an acute syndrome of Diogenes, "but on the contrary, in the sense that the fear of death causes them to dream," to Borges, that everything should be preserved and, to do it, store it somewhere in need party and which, when the container is full, you should transfer all in a more great (as long as the move is not something to be lost). Among other things, is what happens to us when we seek a larger house because the library is so saturated by even more not to accept a sheet. At first it was the case for text file, then for sound and so on for all forms of the objects of electronic communications media say. Only alternative, to invent systems that can archive compression to save space - something we can do for the library home.
But it was useless, Ros-Martín continues from the first containers floppy is yes then passed to the CD to DVD and now to pen-drive, which is always smaller containers, but higher capacity, while the storage problem does not lie, so, in the size of the container, rather than the organization and content, that is stored in the cataloging of material which, as you know, has the sole purpose of allowing the effective recovery. The fact is that with the passage of time, unless you have a system for cataloging and iron permanent and always respected, we do not remember more what was the passkey: disconsolate look with suspicion and closed folders in our PC trying to figure out what they can never contain ... So often Repoll the Web (and now the "Cloud", where the inter-operability applies to its fullest extent) trying out something, however, kept in the house somewhere, but where?
is here, concludes Ros-Martín, the old cynic takes its revenge: the evolution in sense of social networking technology makes the new-old dream finally not to keep anything but all gain when needed, as if for the first time, to leave it outside containers which not only storage, and security documents (such as with our e-mail, as with our images and our digital movies stored and shared, if appropriate, on the various Google-mail, Google-Docs, Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare, etc.) but also giving to 'intellect individual trust in ' collective intelligence "to Pierre Levy" of Folksonomy, for the development and widespread use of semantic codes needed to detect, locate and identify items when and if we still need it. The object together with the method and the heuristic scheme.
Or think, on the same line but in another universe, a priori not fill the "libraries" home but working in the library ... where, among other things, is necessarily confirmed, at least until now for the sake of physical media, an identity of form with content that has, meanwhile, lost on the road to the port with the digital collection, a great opportunity and a source of anguish to our fate identity. As for the versioning affect the retention of written documents? As the redundancy required documents (such as the printing of paper copies) philological approach ensures correct one to copy? The eco-system consisting of the Internet is truly able to automatically discard all copies of the altered or false?
Marcos Ros-Martín, El fin of digital Diogenes , "El Retriever enredado " , September 2010.
[pre-print for "The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 3-4/2010]
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