If I had cleaned up my email before writing this post, I would have found this Washington Post article through the Data & Society (an independent non-profit research organization) newsletter I receive. I would have included a link in the section about harvesting books.
I'm personally not hopeful about things like RSL. Realistically, if you want to prevent something from being scraped, you either put it behind *good* access control or you don't put online at all. Obviously that means significantly limiting public access.
ETA: Also, if you're preventing the Wayback machine from archiving your content, I hope that you have strong long-term sustainability plans and procedures.
Good one! Yep - this is the open access democratization dilemma. I remind people of Zurkowski who 50 years ago astutely taught us “information literacy” that information is capital intensive and open does not mean free. Openness with guardrails are needed now. Thank you for capturing and categorizing many of the concerns so very well.
If I had cleaned up my email before writing this post, I would have found this Washington Post article through the Data & Society (an independent non-profit research organization) newsletter I receive. I would have included a link in the section about harvesting books.
https://wapo.st/4a6aaIo (gift link)
I'm personally not hopeful about things like RSL. Realistically, if you want to prevent something from being scraped, you either put it behind *good* access control or you don't put online at all. Obviously that means significantly limiting public access.
ETA: Also, if you're preventing the Wayback machine from archiving your content, I hope that you have strong long-term sustainability plans and procedures.
Good one! Yep - this is the open access democratization dilemma. I remind people of Zurkowski who 50 years ago astutely taught us “information literacy” that information is capital intensive and open does not mean free. Openness with guardrails are needed now. Thank you for capturing and categorizing many of the concerns so very well.
Nice article. This was a good read. Thank you very much.