As we shall see, digital historians have many reasons to hold the principle of “fair use” close to their hearts.
Although historians might create a book or an archive, it is most of the time not their knowledge and own personal creation. They use a serious of primary sources and idea or concepts that had already been thought of. The idea of fair use must come in to play or else people can be copyrighted for anything and the history field will be bombarded with lawsuits.
I am curious to understand why the duration was 14 years. Why would you have to renew the rights to your own creation?
If the methods used to generate the data are algorithmic,
A set of guidelines to follow.
These differences are vital in understand digital curation.
technology’s advantages and disadvantages
An advantage of technology is that it is less time consuming. There is no need for travel to the library and spend hours looking through books. A disadvantage of technology, especially the internet, is you don't know what websites to believe.
Just ten years ago, we would not have imagined the need for “a guide to gathering, preserving, and presenting the past on the web.” Indeed, few of us knew the web existed.
I honestly can't imagine a world without the internet or modern technology. It is so easy to learn information through millions of websites that can be searched in the matter of seconds. It is going to be difficult in my history classes to head to the library and have to read through multiple books just to find one bit of information.
translating their work to the web
That must have taken forever!