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Usually, us archivist spend sleepless night worrying about copyright, but I propose that we should follow patents as well. The vast patent portfolio of the bankrupt Nortel company has been in limbo for a while now. The big tech companies, like Apple and now Google, have been circling the sinking carcass for months. Each getting ready to pounce and tear into the vast patent meat. The bidders have many reasons for doing this, protecting themselves from future lawsuits is Google’s supposed main reason, but use archivist should know about these patents as well. Digital records are the future of archives, but its important to know how those records were created. To do this we need to learn about the underlying architecture of computers, software and other pieces of technology. Much of that architecture can be found in patents. Who ever controls the patents controls the technology and, in some respects, controls how records are created. While patents don’t last as long as copyright, keeping track of which company controls which technology will help archivist understand the process of digital record creation, which in turn will help us preserve these records

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Post date 2011-04-06

Nortel Patents

Web magazines with video give me a headache because I dont know how best to capture them.

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Post date 2011-04-06

Web magazines with video give me a headache because I dont know how best to capture them.

Tuesday: Courthouse The courthouse was constructed in 1886. It served in this capacity until the new

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Post date 2011-04-05

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Post date 2011-04-05

I <3 Google Analytics, but I’m also a bit terrified by the amount of information I can learn about who’s visiting this blog. This map visualization shows the traffic I’m getting from Georgia. As you can tell most of it comes from the Milledgeville area. I know at least one person from Virginia has taken […]

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Monday: Old Courthouse This weeks building is the historic Baldwin County courthouse which is owned

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Post date 2011-04-04

Hotels maybe expensive in Charleston SC, but so far everything else has been reasonable and delicious.

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Post date 2011-04-02

One person’s expensive night out is another really reasonable one.

Friday: Formal Gardens. I’ve always felt sorry for this little statue.

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Post date 2011-04-01

Thursday: Formal Gardens The alumni tend to leave their mark, in this case literally, on campus. I s

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Post date 2011-03-31

Wednesday (Extremely Late) Formal Gardens It never ceases to amaze me how beautiful Georgia College

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Post date 2011-03-31

It’s sad how excited our first IM reference question made me today.

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Post date 2011-03-30

It’s sad how excited our first IM reference question made me today.