I thought the gag with sucessful archiving was being able to pick the peanuts from the metaphorical turd? Otherwise you end up with everything, and people in the future doing research will spend an age sorting the wheat from the chaff?
Not that identifying items as being in one camp or the other is the easiest thing, and there will almost certainly be some items which could be of great significance that got deep sixed, but some winnowing is required....
Disclaimer: I am not an archivist. I do work with some though.
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Date: 2018-05-13 04:48 pm (UTC)Not that identifying items as being in one camp or the other is the easiest thing, and there will almost certainly be some items which could be of great significance that got deep sixed, but some winnowing is required....
Disclaimer: I am not an archivist. I do work with some though.