We've had a talk and our plans are something along the lines of the following;
- Get rid of all old and out-dated content.
Instead of "Get rid of" how about "move down to a subdirectory called something like "old".
Then over the next thousand years this can be developed into subdirectories for each decade or century - at any rate, a new one each time the site is redesigned.
Our modern trend for "get rid of" causes so much landfill. Let's think of "preservation" instead. Today's boring records become interesting archives a century or two later.
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:44:25 +0000 (UTC), "Christopher Dawkins" cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk said:
We've had a talk and our plans are something along the lines of the following;
- Get rid of all old and out-dated content.
Instead of "Get rid of" how about "move down to a subdirectory called something like "old".
Then over the next thousand years this can be developed into subdirectories for each decade or century - at any rate, a new one each time the site is redesigned.
Our modern trend for "get rid of" causes so much landfill. Let's think of "preservation" instead. Today's boring records become interesting archives a century or two later.
Speaking as a medievalist (which I may or may not be), I'd like to suggest that, at least where information is concerned, "get rid of" is the old-fashioned attitude and "preservation" is modern.
;-)
Cheers, Richard (how much of a sad geek am I?) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Sonic Arts Research Archive http://www.sara.uea.ac.uk/ JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 14:59 +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
Speaking as a medievalist (which I may or may not be), I'd like to suggest that, at least where information is concerned, "get rid of" is the old-fashioned attitude and "preservation" is modern.
;-)
It's a shame that the same attitude wasn't applied to the Moon Landing high res tapes...of the 700 tapes all but 2 are missing and the last facility that maintains the equipment to read the sstv tapes is to shut down later this year :-(
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