[idlewords]

The audience for this talk was people with very large collections they're bringing online. I was trying to encourage them to avoid exotic formats, custom plugins, custom software (shudder) when they put this material online, and make them web accessible.

For example, here is three quarters of a PETABYTE of historical American newspapers: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

[erichocean]

Okay, that makes sense. I 100% agree that bringing collections online in exotic formats is a terrible idea.