Re:Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds
by dalke on Sunday February 21, 2016 @01:42PM
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>> We are stuck at an awkward time in digital scholarship
I'll add to that. It will still be an awkward time in 20-40 years. Let's say that "Professor X" is a pioneer in a field, and her computer, which has her last 40 years of activity (email, source code, draft documents, downloads, etc.) on it is placed in an archive.
Now I, as an historian of science, go through that blob and figure out the timeline for some event, which is based on recorded IRC sessions, git commit messages, etc.
How do I cite those individual locations in the archival data?
I'll add to that. It will still be an awkward time in 20-40 years. Let's say that "Professor X" is a pioneer in a field, and her computer, which has her last 40 years of activity (email, source code, draft documents, downloads, etc.) on it is placed in an archive.
Now I, as an historian of science, go through that blob and figure out the timeline for some event, which is based on recorded IRC sessions, git commit messages, etc.
How do I cite those individual locations in the archival data?