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Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
One of Stanisław Lem's stories, The Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, begins with a strange phenomenon that turns all written materials into dust. Galadriel in "the Lord of the Rings" opening scene ( video, transcript).There are many motivations for preserving content, ranging from a digital"non omnis moriar" through practical arguments, to archiving as a goal in itself 2. So I take a pragmatic approach - when I find content worth keeping, I copy it to a markdown file, adding frontmatter with its publication date, source, and relevant tags:
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