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Disappearing repositories
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A Proto-Internet Made of Index CardsAtlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Below is an excerpt from a forthcoming ...www.slate.com
The Mundaneum was, to put it mildly, an ambitious undertaking. Belgian lawyer Paul Otlet and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henri LaFontaine established the project in 1910 with the aim of compiling the entirety of human knowledge on 3-by-5 index cards. The collection was to be the centerpiece of a “world city” designed by Le Corbusier, a nucleus of knowledge that would inspire the world with its libraries, museums, and universities.
To address the daunting task of arranging bits of paper into a coherent compendium of world history, Otlet developed a system called Universal Decimal Classification. Over the next few decades, a growing staff created and cataloged more than 12 million cards summarizing the contents of books and periodicals. Having assembled this wealth of knowledge, Otlet began offering a fee-based research service. Queries came in by mail and telegraph from around the globe at the rate of 1,500 per year.
With the paper-based system becoming cumbersome by 1934, Otlet hoped to move onto another system: a mechanical data cache accessible via a global network of what he termed “electric telescopes.” To his dismay, the Belgian government had little enthusiasm for the idea. With World War II looming and priorities elsewhere, the Mundaneum moved to a smaller site, eventually ceasing operations after years of financial instability. The final blow came during the Nazi invasion of Belgium, when soldiers destroyed thousands of boxes filled with index cards, hanging Third Reich artwork in their stead.
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The Mundaneum was, to put it mildly, an ambitious undertaking. Belgian lawyer Paul Otlet and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henri LaFontaine established the project in 1910 with the aim of compiling the entirety of human knowledge on 3-by-5 index cards. The collection was to be the centerpiece of a “world city” designed by Le Corbusier, a nucleus of knowledge that would inspire the world with its libraries, museums, and universities.
To address the daunting task of arranging bits of paper into a coherent compendium of world history, Otlet developed a system called Universal Decimal Classification. Over the next few decades, a growing staff created and cataloged more than 12 million cards summarizing the contents of books and periodicals. Having assembled this wealth of knowledge, Otlet began offering a fee-based research service. Queries came in by mail and telegraph from around the globe at the rate of 1,500 per year.
With the paper-based system becoming cumbersome by 1934, Otlet hoped to move onto another system: a mechanical data cache accessible via a global network of what he termed “electric telescopes.” To his dismay, the Belgian government had little enthusiasm for the idea. With World War II looming and priorities elsewhere, the Mundaneum moved to a smaller site, eventually ceasing operations after years of financial instability. The final blow came during the Nazi invasion of Belgium, when soldiers destroyed thousands of boxes filled with index cards, hanging Third Reich artwork in their stead.
Kind of an Alexandria Library loss type event but in the XXth century.
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The critical window of shadow librariesHow can we claim to preserve our collections in perpetuity, when they are already approaching 1 PB?annas-archive.org
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ISCMNS has just begun the process of adding JCMNS papers to the DOI database -costs a little over $1/paper. Hopefully that will increase their visibility and connection power.
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Hopefully that will increase their visibility and connection power.
I found this guide quite informative:
Getting Found, Staying Found, Increasing Impact: Enhancing Readership and Preserving Content for OJS JournalsA practical guide to increasing the visibility and preservation of your journal content, with examples from Open Journal Systems (OJS)docs.pkp.sfu.ca -
ISCMNS has just begun the process of adding JCMNS pspers to thr DOI database -costs a little over $1/paper. Hopefully that will increase their visibility and connection power.
One thing I've noticed from my own "propagation" trials is the importance, not only of DOI numbers, but of ensuring that the DOI numbers of all your paper's citations are available to be "spidered" by the various cross-referencing systems. That sometimes means manually adding all your references to whatever sites you also use to display links to your paper (e.g. Academia.edu, ResearchGate, ScienceOpen, etc.)
That way, when someone checks a paper for some other reason, and looks at the list of papers that have referenced it, your paper will appear along with all the others. These cross-referencing systems seem to fail at making the links if either paper lacks a DOI.
