📚 Digital preservation isn't just about the future. Sometimes it's what keeps education going in a crisis.
When the pandemic closed schools & libraries, students studying Papiamento needed access to books for their exams. In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING, Peter Scholing shares how librarians, authors & the internetarchive (npub1umd…wfr7) made those texts available online. Part of the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture.
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https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-5-a-language-worth-saving-with-peter-scholing
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