Thank you Susan and especially Eric, for your thou...

2011-03-29T19:48:02.878-07:00

Thank you Susan and especially Eric, for your thoughtful comments. Thank you also for clarifying that Open Context is not presently set up to archive blogs or other feed content, but this possibility is on the horizon. I am curious to see what other participants in this carnival suggest since, as you say, digital archiving is difficult and mostly beyond the capabilities of individual scholars.

I absolutely agree that blogging is a really impor...

2011-03-29T11:47:37.668-07:00

I absolutely agree that blogging is a really important aspect of scholarly communications, and scholars (not necessarily just those in universities, but anyone contributing as a public intellectual) needs support for digital preservation.

Just to reiterate the point of this post, Open Context, itself, is not a digital repository, and can’t archive blog content. But as you point out in

It's all about the cloud, now. So whatever yo...

2011-03-29T05:40:39.273-07:00

It's all about the cloud, now. So whatever you do be sure to call it "Arcloudeology".

Comments on Dig Girl: Blogging Archaeology, Week 4

Thank you Susan and especially Eric, for your thou...

I absolutely agree that blogging is a really impor...

It's all about the cloud, now. So whatever yo...