rewriting the past

[waider]

fascinating piece on print vs. online sources, and the reliability of the latter. Of course, it's online...

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[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

She makes some good points, though. We've been discussing digital archiving in class, but this is an issue that hasn't taken center stage yet: how do you know that the file you've got is the real thing? (We'd say "the authoritative version", I suppose.)

I forwarded the article link to my class in information resources. I'll be interested to see what they say.