Debra I would just call Adobe and ask for help.  If I need to get some
names for you let me know I have many friends at Adobe one is a Vice
President and a very nice guy I used to work with many years ago.

 Deb do you have all the facts on what this data is and who make what
requirements to even start down the road of what you are espousing she
do?   I am sure she didn't come to defend her position she came to ask
how to carry out a decision shes made.   If you don't agree with her
decision once you have gathered ALL the facts then great blast away.
I am always amused when people RAIL on someone with out all the
background knowledge required to make such damning and cutting
criticisms.   Putting your faith in Karma to manage data and
collections SCARES THE HELL OUT OF ME.    A class curriculum is
nothing like medical and personal data.   When some crack pot
researcher decides to use the data in some bizzarre form. (which
happen what 10000 times a day)(see right wing and left wing use the
same data to say opposite things) Debra will know who they are and
know how to possible correct that issue.   That sound pretty positive
to me.
I could be completely wrong.

On 10/6/07, Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 10/6/07, Debra Loguda-Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >> We are not trying to keep researchers from viewing anything at
> anytime, BUT we do need to have some sort of control of our collection
> otherwise what good am I  in taking care of our collection.
>
> I don't understand what kind of "control" you want. You "control" the
> originals and presumably have backup copies of the OCR files. Are you
> afraid people will steal your material and credit it as their own? Are
> you afraid that people will hack your documents and change the text
> online?
>
> What you are asking is conflicting with the purpose of putting
> materials online. On the one hand, you are saying that you want to
> make your research more accessible to people by OCR and placing it on
> the web. On the other hand, you are essentially saying you want to
> control how people use it.
>
> I see this attitude a lot with academics who want to place their work
> online so that more people can access it but are paranoid about their
> work being "stolen". The sad truth is that people are going to steal
> work regardless, the Internet just makes it a bit easier. It is a
> small price to pay for better information dissemination.
>
> Pioneering universities like MIT have put their entire curricula
> online, accessible to anyone who wants to read it and download it. You
> won't get credit for reading a course online but you do have access to
> the same information MIT students have so it's like being able to
> audit classes for free. I'm sure other professors use their lesson
> plans, problem sets, and reading lists. Honest professors will credit
> their sources and it's free advertising for MIT. Dishonest professors
> won't credit their sources and one hopes that karma is truly a
> boomerang and they will eventually be caught.
>
> Does letting the world have access to this information hurt MIT?
> Certainly not. Last time I checked, MIT was still highly competitive
> and MIT degrees were still widely respected. What it did do is give
> more people access to information, which is at the core of what a
> university should be in the first place.
>
> If you are concerned about how your information is being used, I'd
> suggest that you require people to register for your records site and
> "check out" documents. You can't set an expiration date but you can
> control who is viewing them and what they are downloading. Like anyone
> else who comes to your physical location and xeroxes documents, you
> can't control what they do with their research once they leave your
> space. Online research shouldn't be any different.
>
> Deb
>
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