Favorited The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book by Wouter Groeneveld

On occasion I’ve mentioned here that one way of ensuring longevity of this blog is to publish it as one or more books with a proper ISBN, and have the national library store their two obligated copies. We did this in my student association with our monthly magazine (with an ISSN not ISBN) and year books too.
My website is part of the national library’s web archive, but Wouter description is still of interest to me. He did some curation, do not much, and no editing. The paper version is likely more browsable than the website, even if a web viewer is called a browser. Sadly enough he had it made through Amazon, so should I go down this route still, finding a way of doing it with local (i.e. EU) partners only is step one.

This was a lovely month project that rewarded me with a physical artefact of an ever-evolving digital medium, solidifying words, sentences, and paragraphs in a way that perhaps might even envy The Internet Archive. As a hopeless sentimental person, flipping through the book, looking at the figures and reading the text makes me happy. And also embarrassed as there are plenty of contextual and grammatical mistakes in solidified as well.

Wouter Groeneveld