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>> Make the archive useful to us, now.  Let people 500 years from now
>> figure it out for themselves.

> That's not the definition of an "archive".  You're thinking of a library.

No, archives need to be useful now too.

Making it useful to people 500 years from now is probably impossible.
(Look at the ideographic signs they invented to put at long-term nuclear
waste sites, they eventually arrived at something but they have a lot
of constraints).

To me the distinction is that archives usually have a narrow field of
coverage while a library has a broader view.  Even that doesn't work
well (look at the "Presidential libraries") in common usage.

Tim.