Digital Archive Sabbatical

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Thursday, October 14, 2004

DSpace Demo

This morning I dispensed with some papers from my office. Trying to tie up loose ends. When it was time to work on my sabbatical, I returned to DSpace! Margret Branschofsky at MIT sent me the login and password for the DSpace Demo, so I played with it and then used it to submit a poem to the Demonstration Community. You can view it at
https://dspace-demo.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.2/3469/1/A+Walk+in+the+Woods.doc .

I wrote the poem last week after walking in the woods near the cottage. Most of the women here say they won't walk alone any more because of the cougar sitings. That's for real. Cougars have been seen in the very area where I was walking. I didn't think of it until part way through my walk, as you can see from the poem. I was wondering if the fear that gripped me was like what soldiers experienced in Vietnam, and decided theirs was worse - they were dealing with intentioned dangers in a dense jungle, not just "innocent" cougars in a friendly woods....




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