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Thanks to someone on this list, I now have a copy of the
Wolfendale report on science in the media.
In the past, I could retrieve this document from the DTI’s
web site. But in a recent redesign they removed links to this and several other
reports that are relevant to the
For example, you can no longer get the simple “how to”
guide that some ageing hack put together fir the OST five years or so ago. Maybe
the report is well past its read by date. But if so no one has told the folks
in the EU who have just put out a report that has a reference, and link, to the
document in question.
Visit here to find out about the EU’s 76-page report
'Communicating Science: A Scientist's Survival Kit':
If there is anyone here with influence over what the DTI does
with old documents, they might like to intervene. If nothing else, the OSI, as
we must now call it, could grant someone else the right to hold “out of
print” documents.
Web revisionism is not new, or unique to the DTI. Does
anyone remember the name Gil Amelio? He once rang Apple, although you would not
know it from their web site. It was this saga that prompted me to buy software that
lets me grab local copies of web pages.
I wonder of the OST signed up to the British Library’s
campaign to build an archive of web sites.
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