From: Winston Tabb <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:02:41 +0000 And add as a footnote to #3: the "fix" may not be legal under copyrights laws in much of the world. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 28, 2015, at 8:06 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:49:54 -0700 > > This is a fascinating and beautiful resopnse to my question. I will > work through the solution at this point sort of "on principle": > because it *can* be done. Thank you! > > But let me generalize a little further. Imagine you were a library > with a resource from a vendor that came with (a) data in standard > formats, (b) crippleware, and (c) a non-standard user interface. > You've "bought" it for "perpetual access", but you know it won't last > long left to its own devices. So your choices are (a) don't buy it, > (b) buy it, live with its limitations, and let it die after a finite > number of years, or (c) invest staff and systems time in rescuing it. > In this case, that third option is not terribly expensive, but it has > a cost. The saving grace here is that the data are in sufficiently > standard formats that the rescue is fairly simple. > > Now multiply this kind of problem by the number of different breeds > and brands of digital resources we deal with. What we now have that > we'll have in 20 years is a function in too many cases of what we'll > be willing to put into making it work. > > Jim O'Donnell > ASU > > >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:18 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> From: Brian Harrington <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:47:10 -0400 >> Subject: Re: Complete New Yorker >> Yes, indeed. Our friends at boing boing were on the case not long after it was released. I haven't gotten around to moving it to my new(ish) machine, but I liked running it from the hard drive just for the convenience factor of not having to deal with swapping DVDs. >> >> Here's the URL: http://boingboing.net/2006/01/11/howto-disable-the-cr.html >> >> And, for your convenience, here's the Wayback Machine link for the detailed HOWTO from "Gustaf": >> >> https://web.archive.org/web/20110817144038/http://gustaf.symbiandiaries.com/weblog/books/CNY-on-hard-drive.html >> >> I hope this helps, >> >> Brian >> >> Brian Harrington >> (not speaking for) LYRASIS >> >> >> LIBLICENSE wrote: >> >>> From: "Jim O'Donnell"<[log in to unmask]> >>> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:33:36 -0700 >>> >>> The New Yorker published a "complete New Yorker" product in 2005 on 8 >>> DVDs, supported it for a couple of years, then abandoned it and the >>> people who purchased it. I have the DVDs and just got them working, >>> with some difficulty, on a Windows 7 machine, but I'm curious whether >>> anyone remembering this product knows of any successful attempt to >>> capture the data and make it available more accessibly. The desktop >>> support wizard who helped me install it (took some doing) says the >>> data seem all to be on the disks unencrypted in standard formats, so >>> in principle you could do something. Has anyone done so? >>> >>> This is a case study in "perpetual access": what does it mean in >>> practice to "own" a digital resource that you've "purchased" from a >>> vendor? >>> >>> Jim O'Donnell >>> ASU