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
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3.1.2 The Fragility of Cultural Memory
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3.1.3 Technological Obsolescence
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3.1.4 Death in Custody
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3.1.5 Describing Digital Content
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3.1.6 Markup - digital wrapping paper
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3.1.7 A New Medium - frozen moments
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3.1.8 Metadata
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3.1.9 Evolving an Infrastructure - a case study
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3.1.10 Last words
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3.1.11 Notes and references
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3.2 Singing the Duck
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3.2.1 Summary
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3.2.2 Types of text
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3.2.3 Context
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3.2.4 Hypertext
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3.2.5 Book-like text
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3.2.6 Morsels of text
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3.2.7 Encoding text
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3.2.8 Universe of text
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3.2.9 Image as text
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3.2.10 Space for text
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3.2.11 Scholarly text
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3.2.12 Screens for text
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3.2.13 Participants text
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3.2.14 Poetics of text
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3.2.15 Notes and references
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3.3 Blinding the Duck
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3.3.1 Summary
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3.3.2 Interactivity
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3.3.3 Strange Uses
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3.3.4 Impasse
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3.3.5 Behind the Camera
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3.3.6 Facing the Camera
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3.3.7 Behind the Screen
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3.3.8 On-line Solutions
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3.3.9 Implementing PICS
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3.3.10 Cultural Accomodation
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3.3.11 Notes and references
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4. Conclusion


5. Bibliography


6. Appendix
6.1 Protocols for On-line Projects at RMIT
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6.2 Seven Pillars of Infrastructure Development
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