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It is entirely the wild west, where you can "cowboy shit and blaze new trails without giving thought to what others in the past have done" [1]. Anyone can be a digital archivist, anyone can run an archive (object store, metadata management, distribution). If I had to compare it to another industry, it'd be newspapers. Barrier to entry is low now (command line, compute, storage), and anyone can do it. This will continue as storage continues to decline in cost, tools get better (disclaimer: I maintain some tooling in this regard), and software improves for capturing physical materials as digital representations.

If someone thinks they can do better, they are free to try. No one is gatekeeping their attempt. Help yourself to some storage & VMs and write some code. If you do better (regardless of gender), everyone benefits.

[1] It's not bad to be able to wild west it and cowboy shit in non-regulated industries, where someone's life safety, finances, etc aren't at stake. Two cents.

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