Slide Thirteen: Packaging Information

Slide13 A universal standard for digital storage could have an enormous impact upon the selective distribution of your media collections. Because the relational integrity among your data objects would be built-in, you could very easily "package" information. For example, you could extract certain media objects, along their associative text files, based on a scholar's search patterns. These materials could then be burned into a CD-ROM or transferred onto some other portable storage vehicle, and then loaned to the scholar for a fee or sold outright.

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