Table of Contents 1. Summary ................................... 1 2. Introduction ................................... 2 3. Hypertexts 3.1 Killing the Duck to Keep the Quack (digital preservation)- 3.1.1 Summary- 3.1.2 The Fragility of Cultural Memory- 3.1.3 Technological Obsolescence- 3.1.4 Death in Custody- 3.1.5 Describing Digital Content- 3.1.6 Markup - digital wrapping paper- 3.1.7 A New Medium - frozen moments- 3.1.8 Metadata- 3.1.9 Evolving an Infrastructure - a case study - 3.1.10 Last words- 3.1.11 Notes and references - 3.2 Singing the Duck (narrative structure) - 3.2.1 Summary- 3.2.2 Types of text- 3.2.3 Context- 3.2.4 Hypertext- 3.2.5 Book-like text- 3.2.6 Morsels of text- 3.2.7 Encoding text- 3.2.8 Universe of text- 3.2.9 Image as text - 3.2.10 Space for text- 3.2.11 Scholarly text- 3.2.12 Screens for text- 3.2.13 Participants text- 3.2.14 Poetics of text- 3.2.15 Notes and references- IV 3.3 Blinding the Duck (Aboriginal representation) - 3.3.1 Summary- 3.3.2 Interactivity - 3.3.3 Strange Uses - 3.3.4 Impasse - 3.3.5 Behind the Camera - 3.3.6 Facing the Camera - 3.3.7 Behind the Screen - 3.3.8 On-line Solutions - 3.3.9 Implementing PICS - 3.3.10 Cultural Accomodation - 3.3.11 Notes and references- 4. Conclusion 5. Bibliography 6. Appendix 6.1 Protocols for On-line Projects at RMIT- 6.2 Seven Pillars of Infrastructure Development - V