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Pirates ahoy!

April 22nd, 2008 admin Comments off

Daniel Cohen has an interesting observation on his Digital Humanities Blog about the tendency to want to try and transfer physical collections and processes without modification into the digital world. As an undergrad Information Management major, one of the most lasting lessons I learned was to never assume that the digital system could, would or should behave like the physical one. To extend Cohen’s analogy, The rules of one ocean don’t always apply when sailing into a new one.

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