Very happy to be quoted the further the message gets the better!

John

John K. Milner 
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John,

Be prepared to be quoted:
'Remember that "useful but incomplete" is a worthwhile benchmark of new 
tools and methods.'

Best wishes,

Mansur Darlington
REDm-MED Project
University of Bath


John Milner wrote:
>
> I like it! I have often asked the question. "What is different in 
> principle between paper data and publications and digital data and 
> publications?" I've yet to get an answer. My own answer is "Nothing". 
> Which implies that Librarians, archivists and curators need to work 
> out systems along the lines you describe to deal with digital material 
> alongside paper material.
>
> If those methods initially turn out to be fairly crude, then as long 
> as they are CONSISTENTLY crude we have the computer power and network 
> bandwidth and intelligent software writers to develop tools to trawl 
> digital material much more easily than trawling the shelves of the 
> planet for books, journals, logs and lab note books.
>
> Google wasn't exactly sophisticated when it took over the world and 
> seemed to be useful, purely because it was better than the alternative.
>
> We should not be striving for perfection we should be starting a 
> journey. Remember that "useful but incomplete" is a worthwhile 
> benchmark of new tools and methods!
>
> John K. Milner
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