[LINK] Internet leading to cultural 'black hole': Library

[ARTHUR,Evan (Dr)]

Rachel wrote: 
<<I have no trouble reading a document written on vellum or parchment in iron gall ink from 250 or so years ago!

When I did presentations on digital preservation issues in my last job, I liked to say, reasonably accurately, that I could read the archives of the Athenian State, carved in pentelic marble in nice clear Attic script 2,500 years ago. 



Evan Arthur
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