<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # An archive is not a warehouse for dead material;... > An archive is not a warehouse for dead material; it is a reservoir of unfinished possibility. Good metadata, stable identifiers, and semantic relationships allow an old idea to reappear when a new question makes it useful. **Source:** [[livestreams/Constructing Genius — Part Four — Technical Infrastructure for Distributed Publishing - Workbook|Constructing Genius — Part Four — Technical Infrastructure for Distributed Publishing]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “An archive is not a warehouse for dead material; it is a reservoir of unfinished possibility. Good metadata, stable identifiers, and semantic relationships allow an old idea to reappear when a new question makes it useful.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-archive-warehouse-dead-question-makes-useful ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->