[LINK] FW: Grey literature conference at NLA in October

[Paul Koerbin]

Tom K. wrote:

<<<It would seem to me that to ensure tenure survival, archivists need to 
make themselves more relevant to the state by becoming peer reviewers of 
Grey materials and cross referencing the apparent irrelevant material 
with some form of hypertextual referencing "relevating" system and 
associate same to our community id.>>>

By selecting content for preservation we are already reviewing it in a curatorial sense and making a decision that we think it has some research value for the future. But anyway, isn't this what APO does? http://apo.org.au/
I think there is certainly scope for web archivists to add value to such portals by ensuring a chronological dimension and context (and whatever else that might engender).


<<<Could I suggest that disaffected archivists get together with 
disaffected systems admins and utilise "grep" along with a few if 
string="buzzwordoftheday"'s to regain ground stolen by Google and 
forward copies of Archivists written abstracts to a non-affiliated Grey 
think tank so the goodies can become accepted science.>>>

Is being disaffected a prerequisite for such action? If so, why? I don't concur that Google is winning or even competing in the curation of historical web content - though of course it is well placed to do so, should they be so inclined.

Paul


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