[Personal_archives] Rounding out the week

[Hobbs, Catherine]

Hi Everyone,
Well, it has been a stimulating week of discussion with our usual
fractal pattern of converging and diverging ideas and comments!  

Thank you so much Cathy for sitting in, listening to our thoughts,
adding your commentary and elucidating your ideas and methods.  It has
been very insightful for us.  I'd like to underline again how refreshing
it is to see you taking this innovative approach to personal digital
archiving from the standpoint of how people are actually functioning in
the digital realm now and anticipating how systems might facilitate
better methods of archiving based on human behaviour.  

As is often my experience after a week's discussion, I am at a loss as
to how to effectively wrap up the session since it appears that we have
more threads to be continued than issues we have in any way resolved.
However, I do take this to be a strength of this type of discussion:
that we end up with a random pattern of ideas which any one of us can
choose among and either bring back to the list for further discussion or
turn into an article or practical application.  And, yes, perhaps that
would be for me, as moderator, my version of "benign neglect". 

In hopes that we hear more on the list in the coming weeks,
Catherine




Catherine Hobbs
(SISPA Chair)