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sustainability of workflows

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• from: Conversation_with_Kenneth_Goldsmith (pad)

  sustainability of workflowsI remember I went to Cuba 15 years ago. There was a sneaker network, where I brought a hard drive full of things from UbuWeb, and they copied it. There were several thousand films, it was copied and then passed around, because they had absolutely no resources there. Then Marcel Mars is working on what he's calling Ubu in a Cave. So, Ubu's not that big, it's got 5,000, 6,000 films on it, but it's all compressed media. The whole site is probably two terabytes at most, the whole site. So Marcel's going to make it so that you can download this and have all of UbuWeb with all its functionality just on a hard drive. I think what you're talking about is kind of the next step. People are actually becoming islands and kind of getting off of centrally controlled networks and becoming their own servers. So Marcel is much more the person to talk to about that than myself. So I guess that's nice, because it's been a real shit show for 30 years, moving UbuWeb, being chased from one server to another because we're doing everything pirate. It's been a real hassle. And if years ago we could have been federated, is that what you're calling it, a federated site, then we would have saved ourselves a lot. I would have saved myself a lot of trouble.

• from: Conversation_with_Silvio_Lorusso (pad)

  (00:05:49) - sustainability of workflowsOne mistake that is often made — I experienced it myself with other projects — is to reinvent the wheel, in imagining giant systems that would last forever.You can make a comparison with another archive that, from this point of view, was way more lean and in this sense, successful, which was the references"Library of the Printed Web", Paul Soullelis' work. You would buy the publication, since it was print-on-demand, take a couple of pictures and write just a little description. The archive was physical, and there were financial resources there, it was way easier to give a sense of coherence. workflowsAnother thing I would have done is connect it to a platform or a stable service, that exists beyond yourself. The perfect example would have been the referencesInternet Archive, and some archives are taking that strategy, for example, an Italian archive of radical publishing, which is called the referencesGrafton 9. The work is to upload it to a collection in the Internet Archive because you know that it will be safe, even if you don’t have the time or the resources to pay for the domain and so on.

• from: Conversation_with_Silvio_Lorusso (pad)

  Silvio (00:40:21) - I’m gonna try to say a few disclaimers which I think are important to point out. What I call publishing is not an industry, it’s a set of people who do other jobs for a living, put in a lot of effort and end up in a lucky position and manage to publish things. sustainability of workflowsI need to define what I'm talking about when I'm talking about publishing. You cannot call that an industry, you call it some like-minded, willing people. My clear concern is to have these people keep doing what they do without burning out. So that’s the mission for you, that’s very practical for me. For example, I read a paper or even an Instagram post by someone who I consider says something original that deserves development: how can I make that post happen in terms of budget, in terms of putting this person in contact with someone who has the structure to publish?