[SPG_Active_Members] DDQ 6(4) is available 12

[H.M. Gladney]

DDQ 6(4) recommends four books, and provides brief reviews:
      David Lindley's Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the
Struggle for the Soul of Science 
      Ernst Cassirer's The Logical Structure of the Humanities, and also his
An Essay on Man
      Amos Elon's The Pity of It All

At the 2007 ECDL conference, Seamus Ross summarized the state of the art of
digital preservation with, "[No] concise and well-developed strategy that
represents the views of a broad community has yet emerged.  Since 1989 at
least twelve have been published."  He continues with, "as a community we
need to re-think how we are approaching research 
 [and] need to engage 

researchers in this process, and especially those with a strong computing
science and engineering background."

Readers of DDQ might also be interested in an article that responds to this
invitation, Economics and Engineering
for Preserving Digital Content.  An online preprint version is available at
http://eprints.erpanet.org/139/.  Its abstract reads:

	Progress towards practical long-term preservation seems stalled.  We
preservationists cannot afford unique technology, but must exploit
marketplace offerings.  Macro economic facts suggest shifting most
preservation work from repository institutions to their users.
	Prior publications describe conceptual solutions for all known
challenges of preserving a single object, but do not deal with software
development or collection scaling.  Much of the software needed is
available.  It has, however, not yet been selected, adapted, integrated, or
deployed for digital preservation.  Tools for daily work can embed packaging
for preservation without much burdening their users.
	We describe a practical strategy for detailed design and
implementation.  Document handling is complicated by human sensitivity to
communication nuances.  Our engineering section therefore suggests how
project managers can master the many pertinent details.
  

Cheerio, Henry
 
H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.  http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney

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