[Dspace-general] Interesting article

[MacKenzie Smith]

Thanks for the point to this essay Jim, it's good to see the software 
engineering community thought-leaders starting to get the open source 
software value proposition...
But I do wish he'd mentioned the parallel need to decouple data from 
software more deliberately, so that data migration strategies will have a 
chance.
If the software is continually evolving and morphing and the data is 
tightly bound to it then content preservation gets a lot harder (unless of 
course it's the software
you're trying to preserve, which brings up a different set of interesting 
issues around authenticity and digital provenance :-)

MacKenzie


At 10:44 AM 7/21/2004 +0100, Jim Downing wrote:
>http://www.bricklin.com/200yearsoftware.htm
>
>An interesting article by Dan Brickling about what the he calls
>"societal infrastructure software". I'd include institutional repository
>software in his definition of societal infrastructure software, so what
>he says may be relevant to DSpace.
>
>Dan comes to interesting conclusions about the licensing and funding
>ecosystem he thinks would be ideal. Happily for us, it's reasonably
>close to the ecosystem around DSpace.
>
>jim
>
>
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