You mean like this?<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.deserthat.com/downloads/ArchivesandPreservationProjects.doc">www.deserthat.com/downloads/ArchivesandPreservationProjects.doc</a></div><div><br></div><div>Incidentally, if anyone has anything to add to the list, let me know - I'm going to be sending surveys to each of these groups. Bear in mind there is still a lot of junk at the bottom of this document and it's a WIP.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Fascinating discussion both! We're a bit out on the accurate resources front. I am still slowly plodding away planning a bibliographic (and other resource) database, where certainly comments on accuracy are going to be a good thing to focus on for some of the major books and texts on the subject.<br>
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I am also surprised that I never found this project run by the LoC. I recall investigating what they were doing but never contacted them, I might do so over this once I start to list all archives, museums, displays, projects and resources next year.<br>
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Anyone can give me a shout here or off list if you want to remind me or bring up anything (or want to participate as an expert), I can always note it down in private before I get this resource site sorted, or at least keep you in mind for expert advice - one of the problems with inaccurate information and how it propagates is even good historians can only do so much investigation. It might well be worth doing mini-articles on specific historical facts - and how they do or don't match up with real ones, especially if we can get places like Wikipedia and Mobygames updated to reflect the much more accurate information, and warn people about specific inaccurate points in books.<br>
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I wonder how other fields work with the problem of historical fact. As noted, the 3 reasons why it gets muddled can happen to any area. Must be one of those impossible-to-solve problems since we don't have any way of recording literally everything, and no one's memory is that perfect!<br>
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