Wagging the Long Tail of Digital Preservation

Longtail Salamander Kyle

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Inspirations

Re Collection Cover Vga
Rinehart Richard Portrait
Smith Sandy Old Computers Sunset

Library of Congress: "We cannot all become museums of computer hardware."

Storage means death

Museum Crate 3 Quarters
Mausoleum Tomb Vga

Phoenix

Phoenix Fabelwesen 1800

"I was never surprised that they did not have a phoenix on display. There is only one phoenix at a time, of course, and while the Natural History Museum was filled with dead things, the phoenix is always alive." — Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures

Mapinguary

Megatherium Rendering

The Mapinguary

Mapinguary Brazil Map Nyt

Which is the oldest human record?

Dead Sea Scrolls Svga Dead sea scrolls
Gudea Cylinder Xvga Gudea cylinders
Colombia Indigenous Nyt Mapinguary story
Rosetta Stone Svga Rosetta stone

Megatherium

Megatherium Skeleton
Seeing Double Logo Flavin Dan Guggenheim Outside

Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice, Guggenheim, 2004.

The Erl King

Seeing Dou Weinbren Ill

Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman, The Erl King (1982, emulated 2004)

Library of Congress: "Emulation may serve our needs better than hardware"

Emulation by professionals: 2004-2014

Seeing Dou Weinbren Ill

Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman, The Erl King (1982, emulated 2004)

Emulation by amateurs: 1974-2014

FCEUX Nintendo Nes Emulator

Super Mario Bros on the FCEUX emulator.

Aficionados sharing openly

Real Mario SmaDiverging, re-converging, and constantly improving.

No one in charge.

Fceux Emulator Timeline
Mario Overruns Erl King

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Underground

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Phoenix V Salamander

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Trial by Fire

Spanish Conquest Burn Indians Salamander On Fire Alchemy

"The salamander gets no food but from the fire, in which it constantly renews its scaly skin." — Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

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Long Tail

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Aficionados in the Long Tail

Long Tail Coffee Search Terms

Spacecraft wrangling

Isee 3 Spacecraft Amateur

The ISEE-3 satellite.

"We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft"

Enlisting amateurs: documentation

Vmq Comparisons Mockup Ill
12karlsruhe Stricot Morgane Sommerer Mign 1

Enlisting amateurs: reprogramming artworks

ReCode Project

Mohr Manfred Recode
Computer Graphics And Art Ani

Enlisting amateurs: 3d modelling

Photofly Fountain

Link

"Scanathon" at San Francisco Museum of Asian Art

Pramuk Seated Ganesha 123d Catch

123D Catch: scanning with your smartphone

View online at 123D Catch or Next slide

Enlisting Amateurs: 3d imaging

Photosynth Notre Dame

View online WebM, MPEG-4, or Next slide

Loss of artistic integrity

Solution: Both/And

Parthenon
Parthenon Dismantle Horse
Parthenon Horse Head
Linux Distro Timeline

Kitschy knock-offs?

Chinese Rhino 123d Catch
Kandinsky Scarf

Both/And for 3D scans

Tlinget orca hat

Tlingit Orca Hat Print V Original 1
Tlingit Orca Hat Print V Original 2

Jean Cocteau was asked the one thing he would save if his art collection caught fire.

Fenos Birth Of A Phoenix

He replied, "the fire."

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