[Taxacom] pro-iBioshphere project Web Site launched

[Roderic Page]

This essay 

http://smethur.st/a-late-answer-to-a-question-from-the-digital 

is a thoughtful commentary on digitisation for digitisation's sake that seems germane here. The diagram of the steps digitisation -> contextualisation -> analysis (and the parallel "on the web" ->  "in the web" -> "social objects") bears thinking about, especially in light of the responses to Donat's original email announcing pro-iBiosphere (awful, awful name).

Rod

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Roderic Page
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