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Daniel Carkner🥀

Was happy to come across someone in the wild sharing this great article by my old boss Tara Robertson. I still think about it when I hear idealistic talk about digitising materials by marginalised people to save them. Things can be more complicated.

"I will look at the digitization of On Our Backs (OOB), a lesbian porn magazine that ran from 1984–2004, as a case study of where digitization and publishing this content online is inappropriate."
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The opening paragraph for the following article: Not All Information Wants to be Free: The Case Study of On Our Backs Tara Robertson* Introduction “Information wants to be free” is one of those slogans that I see on t-shirts and tote bags at library conferences. Generally, librarians advocate for open access to information. In this chapter, I will look at the digitization of On Our Backs (OOB), a lesbian porn magazine that ran from 1984–2004, as a case study of where digitization and publishing this content online is inappropriate. First, I will locate myself and explain why I’ve been critical of Reveal Digital putting OOB online. Second, I will examine why it was problematic for Reveal Digital to put OOB online and will also look at why the reasons they gave for temporarily removing OOB were also problematic. Third, I’ll look at some of the copyright issues associated with digitizing this collection and I will argue that we need to go beyond just looking at copyright. I’ll conclude with a survey discussion of some other digitization projects that are approaching tricky ethical issues from a nuanced and thoughtful perspective and describe best practices, including having clear contact information, using appropriate technology, and working with communities from a community development perspective.
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Mystery Babylon

@djm62 It is, thanks!

Though before reading it, I'd put out there that the "publishing them online" part is not really what I'm advocating everyone does, with current queer online culture.

I'm more about getting a copy of online things to hoard offline, for Reasons, and then just sitting on it while we wait and see what happens.

But perspectives like this are informative. And also, part of queer culture! :)

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серафими многоꙮчитїи

@erosdiscordia I'm wondering what the shelf-stable offline storage looks like. I'd be happy to have a cache in the attic, but having it intact and legible would be another challenge without equipment from antiques roadshow.

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