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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">DDQ 6(4) recommends four books, and provides brief reviews:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Arial"> David Lindley's<I> Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science</I> </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Arial"> Ernst Cassirer's</FONT><I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">The Logical Structure of the Humanities,</FONT></I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">and also his</FONT><I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">An Essay on Man</FONT></I>
<BR><I><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial"> </FONT></I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Amos Elon's</FONT><I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">The Pity of It All</FONT></I>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">At the 2007 ECDL conference, Seamus Ross summarized the state of the art of digital preservation with, "</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">[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.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">" He continues with, "</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">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.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Readers of DDQ might also be interested in an article that responds to this invitation,</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Arial">Economics and Engineering<BR>
for Preserving Digital Content</FONT></I><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">. An online preprint version is available at </FONT><A HREF="http://eprints.erpanet.org/139/"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">http://eprints.erpanet.org/139/</FONT></U></A><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">. Its abstract reads:</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">Cheerio, Henry</FONT>
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<BR><FONT FACE="Arial">H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. <A HREF="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney</A></FONT>
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