Comment on print journal / digital world by Barbara

Barbara
Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:44:20 +0000

Okay - I guess I am confused about the "born digital" part. It seems as if there's a distinction here between "part of a series and its sequence clearly indicated as such" and "material that is outside the series sequence but carrying the same brand" - which is more about preservation and being encoded for recovery than about its having been distributed in print. Sorry if I'm being dense. It seems as if we are perpetuating some conventions of print (volumes, numbers, continuous pagination) that help people identify and seeking parts of series and extra bits that aren't so designated are easily lost. It also Risks falling outside repackaging that aggregators do to make bundles of stuff In series available through libraries. That recoverability is awfully important and is more easily aided by old fashioned citations or DOIs than by unstable URLs.