Re: [GOAL] Internet Archive Mirroring in Canada to Protect from Trump

2016-11-30 Thread Kathleen Shearer
Hi Heather, all. I think OA repositories are already moving in that direction. At COAR we are trying to promote widespread data exchange between repository networks so that there is redundancy across networks and multiple copies around the world. There is already significant sharing of metad

Re: [GOAL] Internet Archive Mirroring in Canada to Protect from Trump

2016-11-30 Thread Heather Morrison
Thank you for the alert, Stevan. This might be a good moment to consider / re-consider the question of archiving for sustainable long-term open access. It is true that Canada is not the U.S. - but the U.S. is our main trading partner and a friendly neighbour but also a very powerful neighbour w

[GOAL] Internet Archive Mirroring in Canada to Protect from Trump

2016-11-30 Thread Stevan Harnad
We're only just beginning to see the long, dark reach of what the deplorables have wrought upon the planet... (Thank goodness the Canadian government today is Trudeau's liberals and not Harper's "conservatives.") http://thenextweb.com/politics/2016/11/30/trump-scares-internet-archive-canada/ _