Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Archivists unite (BOF in Nashville) Message-ID: <79157@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 6 Jun 91 21:55:28 GMT Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: urth.acsu.buffalo.edu Indeed the archivists BOF is going to happen. Unless something extraordinary occurrs we shall be meeting Tuesday at 9pm (same time as the GNU BOF) in a room yet to be determined. We shall chat about things that those of us compelled to collect find terribly interesting. These include but are of course not limited to: * How does one find interesting things in the morass of news and then find those things on the net? * How do we keep everything we've ever found given finite resources? * How do we keep track of things we've found? * How do we get rid of things that really are of no further use or replace them with a better/newer version? * How do we share (on a local/regional/national/global level) the things we've found? * What can we learn (or steal) from the librarians? * How can help us? * How do we make all of this transparent to the users of our diverse computing environments? Those not able to attend should be apprised at a later date (in comp.archives.admin) of some bits of what did (or did not) happen. -- pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!pjg / pjg@ubvms (Bitnet) opinions found above are mine unless marked otherwise.