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Recognise the differences in services for preservation and services for sharing
Posted by scott.bradley.wilson 08/06/2008 07:00 AM GMT+00:00
The umbrella term "repository" conflates two very different kinds of services - services whose primary purpose is to preserve a type of media, and services whose primary purpose is to enable media to be shared and used by people. They don't look the same, they have different kinds of users and roles, they don't share the same concerns, and you use different language to talk about their features. Maybe we would get further by having an amicable divorce, and only get together to talk about things that are completely generic, like storage.
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c.rusbridge
08/11/2008
Hmm. I voted this up but then read it more closely. Yes, there are different services, and making available long term is different from accessibility now. BUT, accessibility tomorrow and the day after requires making available short term, which is part of making available medium term, which is part of making available long term.

By analogy, think of the term "not for profit". It means those nice friendly institutions as opposed to those nasty grasping "for-profit" institutions. But a not for profit that survives has to be "not for loss", and so they have to act in many ways like a "for profit".

Amy repository that wants to continue to make its resources available has to be "not for loss", which means it has to have some elements of preservation!
aalakos
08/20/2008
I am not sure that a positive vote here is right....
ockerblo
08/21/2008
My down vote is on the expansion rather than the headline itself. Yes, from a technical perspective preservation services are distinct, strictly speaking, from sharing services, and it can be useful to tease them apart for certain analyses. But from a practical point of view, preservation is often highly dependent on support, use, and replication, so sharing services, properly conceived, can greatly support the goals of preservation.
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