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Florida Man, PhD

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Digital archivist here: we constantly have to explain to every faculty member proposing digital projects that said project is more like a puppy than a book--it requires constant care and attention right up until the day it dies. In other words: someone has to pay for every minute it remains standing

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...and that's not even getting into the questions of access and power! More and more, slices of the infrastructure maintaining these archives is being outsourced to various enterprise software platforms--which can alter or cut off access/use at any time. It's maddening.

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