<html> <body> Bill, Quick correction: machinima.com is not a site we did.  However we did archive many of their movies in the Machinima Archive, which is the first site you listed. As I said to John Toole after the program, I think CHM is in very good position to put together community-based projects like I was describing. Henry At 09:23 AM 2/24/2005, Bill Selmeier wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Ok, let me start by first pulling Lee's chain for promoting this event (good idea) but then I didn't see him there.  8^) The panel did bring some topics up that touch on a comment I briefly made at the last meeting.  Even though I'm a newbie at this, I'm going to try and postulate some thoughts. Certanly we all would like the Museum to serve grand and noble purposes. To simply become a repository for software, while good, is likely to be repeated in numerous places more or less accurately.  It seems to me a noble purpose for us is to become authoritative about the identification or correctness of an assertion of what a particular software program, etc. is. The speakers last night and particularily Henry Lowood, Stanford Curator for History of Science and Technology Collections, recognized that digital archiving is going on all over the internet.  This is a problem legacy collections are struggling with right now as they see their uniqueness and authoritativeness atrophy.  There will be multiple authoritative collections and many many more "vernacular" collections. Could we as the Computer History Museum become the trusted source for the truthfullness of claiming e.g. "This is the cobol compiler for the Univac 9700?"  An MD5 checksum is probably to simplistic an approach, but this is a noble purpose if it can be accomplished. Henry Lowood referred to two different Stanford sponsored projects and implied that they also relate to vernacular collections in the same topical areas. See <a href="http://www.archive.org/movies/collection.php?collection=machinima" eudora="autourl"> http://www.archive.org/movies/collection.php?collection=machinima</a> or <a href="http://www.machinima.com/" eudora="autourl"> http://www.machinima.com/</a>. Bill On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Lee Courtney wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:51:03 -0800 From: Lee Courtney <lcourtney@mvista.com> To: scc_active@computerhistory.org Subject: [SCC_Active_Members]  TONIGHT - Of Interest to SCC - From Gutenberg     to Galaxy: Accessing Cultural Assets Online Hi all, OK, ok - thanks to everyone who put me in the doghouse - this event is tonight at the Museum! Sorry for the really last minute notice, but the following may be of particular interest to SCC members. Cheers, Lee Courtney CHM Presents "From Gutenberg to Galaxy: Accessing Cultural Assets Online" Moderator: Rick Prelinger, President, Internet Archive Panelists: -Czeslaw Jan Grycz, CEO, Octavo -Paula Jabloner, Archivist, Computer History Museum -Henry Lowood, Stanford Curator for History of Science and Technology Collections -Mark Mudge, CEO, Cultural Heritage Imaging [snipped from here]></blockquote> ************************************************************************ Bill Selmeier<x-tab>   </x-tab><x-tab>         </x-tab>20720 Maureen Way<x-tab>       </x-tab>     voice  (408)257-7670 Leader<x-tab>  </x-tab><x-tab>         </x-tab><x-tab>         </x-tab>Saratoga, CA 95070<x-tab>      </x-tab>     mobile (408)655-3400 Internet Developer <a href="http://www.internetdeveloper.org/" eudora="autourl"> http://www.internetdeveloper.org</a> bills@inetdevgrp.org or RightNet, Inc.      <a href="http://www.right-net.com /" eudora="autourl"> http://www.right-net.com     </a> bills@right-net.com _______________________________________________ SCC_active mailing list SCC_active@computerhistory.org <a href="http://mail.computerhistory.org/mailman/listinfo/scc_active" eudora="autourl"> http://mail.computerhistory.org/mailman/listinfo/scc_active</a> </blockquote> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> Henry Lowood, Ph.D. Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections Curator for Germanic Collections HASRC, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford CA 94305-6004 EMAIL: lowood@stanford.edu    PH: 650-723-4602</body> </html>