At 1:22 PM -0600 3/5/98, gary frost wrote:
>(1.)The first thing we can do is to popularize application of metadata.
A nice example of this is the recent work by The Getty to universalize
globally "Object ID"---a standard way of describing valuable art and
archeological-artifact works, so that dealers, customs people, museums,
law-enforcement, owners, and so on ALL describe precious objects in the
same terms. It's as invaluable as it is simple.
>Disposability lends meaning to permanence
Nice.