Guest post by Mark O’Connell
What do you think of when you think of an archive? For years, the final scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark represented the state of the art in archiving technologies. In case you don’t remember the movie, "Indy" Indiana Jones, after surviving being chased by scores of Nazis, manages to defeat them and to recover the Lost Ark of the covenant, an incredibly powerful religious artifact. The US government seizes the artifact and assures Indiana that it is being studied by “top men”, while the final scene of the movie shows the Ark being archived: shut in a wooden box, crated into a giant storage room which is filled to the brim with hundreds of thousands of similar boxes, never to be...
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