From jsiegel@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu Sun Dec 3 05:44:16 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA405880 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 05:44:15 -0800 Received: from drjclassics.com (server62.aitcom.net [208.234.0.14]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA18424 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 05:44:14 -0800 Received: from janicesi (adsl-141-158-1-138.phila.adsl.bellatlantic.net [141.158.1.138]) by drjclassics.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA07748 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 08:36:58 -0500 Message-ID: <005201c05d2f$3dc5e780$8a019e8d@janicesi> From: "Janice Siegel" To: Subject: newspaper article links from webpages Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 08:45:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_004F_01C05D05.53D40F40" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C05D05.53D40F40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear All: This concerns a discussion some of us web editors had a few = weeks ago. The question was "How can we incorporate newspaper articles = about the classical world on our website?" The best way to ensure = someone else's copyright rights is to link directly to the page. But = these links change and eventually go stale.=20 Possible answer: why can't I save a given webpage (newspaper article) as = an off-line file - an html file. Then i can make a link to the page = (which is now saved on my server) from my site, and it will ALWAYS be = current! And it will be the actual webpage, so there will be no = copyright issues!!! Is this too obvious? It occurred to me because a student of mine saved my syllabus off-line = (because his sister hogs the computer) and so he couldn't get up-to-date = information on paper topics because he was looking at an old file (it = took a while to figure out why he couldn't see what i saw, because he = didn't tell me about this. Of course, he also took a shot to the head = earlier in the semester when his car hit a deer on the road...and he's = been a bit slow recovering from his concussion.) If anyone has comments on why this *wouldn't* work, please tell me. i = think i am going to go with this idea. I suppose I should indicate that = it is an old webpage next to the link? Thanks, all. Janice Janice Siegel Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jsiegel http://www.drjclassics.com http://oll.temple.edu/ih ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C05D05.53D40F40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dear All: This concerns a discussion = some of us web=20 editors had a few weeks ago. The question was "How can = we incorporate=20 newspaper articles about the classical world on our website?" The best = way to=20 ensure someone else's copyright rights is to link directly to the page. = But=20 these links change and eventually go stale.

Possible answer: why can't I save a given webpage (newspaper article) as an = off-line file=20 - an html file. Then i can make a link to the page (which is now saved = on my=20 server) from my site, and it will ALWAYS be current! And it will be the = actual=20 webpage, so there will be no copyright issues!!!

Is this too obvious?

It occurred to me because a student of = mine saved=20 my syllabus off-line (because his sister hogs the computer) and so he = couldn't=20 get up-to-date information on paper topics because he was looking at an = old file=20 (it took a while to figure out why he couldn't see what i saw, because = he didn't=20 tell me about this. Of course, he also took a shot to the head earlier = in the=20 semester when his car hit a deer on the road...and he's been a bit slow=20 recovering from his concussion.)

If anyone has comments on why this = *wouldn't* work,=20 please tell me. i think i am going to go with this idea. I suppose I = should=20 indicate that it is an old webpage next to the link?

Thanks, all.

Janice

Janice Siegel
Intellectual Heritage=20 Program
Temple University
http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jsie= gel
http://www.drjclassics.com
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