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Peter wrote: > Also, re: blog mirroring, I highly recommend the current discussions > floating aroung the blogosphere regarding distributed source control (Git, > Mercurial, etc.). It's a fundamental paradigm shift from centralized > control to distributed control that points the way toward the future of > libraries as they (we) become less and less the gatekeepers for the > "stuff" be it digital or physical and more and more the facilitators of > the "bidirectional replication" that assures ubiquitous access and > long-term preservation. The library becomes (actually it has already > happended) simply a node on a network of trust and should act accordingly. > > See the thoroughly entertaining/thought-provoking Google tech talk by > Linus Torvalds on Git: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 Thanks for pointing to this interesting discussion. This goes even further then the current paradigm shift from the old model (author -> publisher -> distributor -> reader) to a world of user-generated content and collaboration! I was glad if we finally got to model and archive Weblogs and Wikis - modelling and archiving the whole process of content copying, changing and remixing and republication is far beyong libraries capabilities! Greetings, Jakob -- Jakob Voß <[log in to unmask]>, skype: nichtich Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de