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Type:
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Working Paper |
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Author:
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Waters, Donald |
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Date:
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2002 |
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Agency:
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Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Washington, DC |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5856
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Information & Knowledge |
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Subject(s):
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information commons
preservation
public goods and bads
Internet
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Abstract:
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"The Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information argued that the value of digital information rests in what it contributes to our cultural memory. Because cultural memory is a public good, it follows that insuring against the possible loss of such memory by the archiving of digital information would also be a public good. The joint economic interest of publishers, authors, and the scholarly community in electronic journals as intellectual property is reason to suggest that archiving them may not be a public good in the strictest sense of the term. Still, the archiving of digital information has special properties as a kind of modified public good that demands special attention."
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