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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

Margins and Meta Data

| April 12, 2004

In his latest Info World column “Filling in the Margins,” Jon Udell writes: Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) alumnus Austin Henderson says that “one of the most brilliant inventions of the paper bureaucracy was the idea of the margin.” There was always space for unofficial data, which traveled with the official data, and everybody [...]