Well, according to the episode of Beyond 2000 I saw today, great forces are
working to bring the two together!
This will be investigated on the next episode of Beyond 2000 (the Vatican
Library going on-line, not the vast amount of pornography in the library :) ...
but knowing ten's scheduling, and the fact that the program was an afternoon
broadcast, it was probably a repeat and the said "next episode" has already
gone to air. maybe.
The impression I got was that the books will be represented as images, which
is very un-NetFriendly, but you can't expect them to type all those mysterious
words which were the flavour of the day back "then".
anyway, I wonder (innocently, of course) whether the whole library will be
accessible? ... My bet is "they" will decide that the whole library is too
large to catalogue, and only the important stuff will be done.
on other matter, viz. what Link should/should not may, could be ...
I joined link only this year because someone bounced a couple of messages to
another mailing list to which I am subscribed. I remember one was to do with
the evil Netscape cookies (btw, I have actually found a cookie file on my
account!) and by joining I was hoping to catch wind of anything wierd, sublime
stupid, schocking and mild conspiracy theory. I generally avoid discussions
because they generally take too long to read (rather like this message, come to think of it) and to reply requires carefully scrutiny to avoid flames.
enough, enough!
Duncan Sargeant dunc@tartarus.uwa.edu.au | "The first thing we do, lets kill all
http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/~dunc/ | the lawyers." - Shakespeare, Henry VI