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Sarah Werner
Personal blog · sarahwerner.net/bloghistoryculture
Sarah Werner writes Wynken de Worde, a personal blog at sarahwerner.net about history and culture. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Sarah Werner's blog post and slides argue about how social media and digitization affect library special collections. The one HN comment linking it disputes the copyright and access points it makes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
OK, for those who went tl;dr: http://sarahwerner.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Slide... As a nonspecialist, I find only her first point compelling. Anything no longer under copyright is public domain. And for the rest there's fair use. I suppose that owners could seek to recover digitalization cost. But wouldn't Google be happy to help?
Comment linking /blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Slide56.jpg
on “How to destroy special collections with social media”Submitted How to destroy special collections with social media as a story · 164 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions to ask when you learn of digitization projects as a story · 19 points
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