The Slow Formation of Durable Software

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What we really needed was an application that had some aspects of Scribe and some aspects of Web Scrapbook: a full-fledged research tool that could exist independently of the web, but be fully cognizant of what was going on in the web browser, aware as the researcher surfed across digital collections and library catalogs. Elena, Tom, Roy, and I agreed on this essential next step for Scribe: we needed to find a way to put it into the web browser, like Web Scrapbook, while retaining Scribe’s provenance as a detail-oriented research tool.

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