A Digital Object Defined
What happens to a digital object defined?[1]
Does its identifier dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or its relationships fester like a sore–
And then run?
Do its bits rot like meat?
Or become overwritten–
like some throw-away sheet?
Maybe its metadata just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it fade into code?
Notes
- Inspired by Langston Hughes's "A Dream Deferred" and a spirited conversation in the office today. [↩]
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This poem just made my Friday. :)