[Informatics] BookCrossing - Labels

[ken price]

Indeed Mark - and now we are also seeing cloud data being "lost" as
teachers retire and/or die, without a record of where their data lives.

In some cases project or class data is in some secure cloud service, but
where and via what access process is not alway clear.

In relation to the original story - if you happen to use bookcrossing,
maybe try some of the less obvious ways to hand on your books - leave them
on a bus or train, at the beach, a mountain hut, a youth hostel or homeless
shelter.


kp

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> It's ironic that while the printed book may well last longer than we will,
> the metadata about it at bookcrossing.com will probably be gone within a
> year or two.
>
> (Waves cane in air)
>
> We're heading for a new digital dark age
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age>, I tell you!  A new dark
> age!
>
> Try reading a 3.5" floppy disk today... even if you can find a drive to
> read it, the disk is likely to be full of magnetic or physical errors.
> Now try reading a 5.25" floppy: the motherboard port is extinct and try
> finding a USB interface for the drive ... well, maybe there is one
> exception <http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html>.
> Even a PATA hard disk is virtually inaccessible in these days of SATA
> ports and drives.
> And what am I supposed to do with my roomful of punchcards from 1975
> containing my database of songs by Captain and Tennille about Pet Rocks?
>
> Where was I? (Puts down cane).  Nurse? I hope there's jelly for dessert
> tonight. I like jelly.
>
> Mark
>
> On 30 December 2015 at 14:07, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Here is something that you can do with that old book after you have read
>> it, before you toss them back into the wild for others to read and enjoy.
>> Label it with a unique BookCrossing ID to track
>> http://www.bookcrossing.com via @arran4
>>
>> Regards Roland
>>
>> http://www.bookcrossing.com/labels
>>
>>
>> *BookCrossing - Labels*
>>
>>
>> Labelling your books with a unique BookCrossing ID number (BCID) is vital
>> to successful BookCrossing. The BCID you get for each book you register
>> here will stay with the book for the rest of its natural life, which of
>> course is probably longer than you or any of us will live. Anytime during
>> that long, long future ahead of us that someone reads the book, then comes
>> to www.bookcrossing.com and enters that BCID, they will be able to see
>> the complete journal history of the book and make a new journal entry of
>> their own. Cool, huh?
>>
>>
>> --
>
> Mark Kelly
>
> mark at vceit.com
> http://vceit.com
>
>
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Dr Ken Price MACS CP ACCE Professional Associate.
President, TASITE http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au
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