Sep 05
Positives & Negatives of Digitization
Positives:
- Accessibility
- Communication
- LOCKSS – system of keeping multiple copies of a digital copy
- Democratization (can also be negative)
- Manipulability – virtual repair
- Time
Negatives:
- Scale – flood of information, expectations
- Authenticity?
- Loss
- Trust
- “Bubble”
- Selection (bias)
- Distance – experience physical vs digital
- Responsibility – online interactions vs face-to-face interactions
People want to see the physical copy of things rather than the digital copy.
Music and books are making less and less money due to digital copies.
The days of selling records and physical books is slowly coming to a halt.
Markup Languages
- SGML
- HTML
- XML
- KML (Google)
“Any markup language merely wraps words with codes.”
“..simple way to describe what’s going on in text in an embedded fashion.”
“HTML document is a text document that has tags to describe what’s going on.”
Before: < > After: </ >
Example: <title>Shakespeare’s <i>Comedy of Errors</i></title>