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11. The American Library of Congress dramatically
increased access to its digital archive through a
cooperative venture with the image-hosting web
site Flickr in January 2008. The archival project
is called The Commons [http://www.flickr.com/
commons/]. As of March 2009, twenty-two
institutions were participating. The Commons,
to some degree, inspired the writing of this
paper.
12. Attempts to predict or quantify the probability
of a finish surviving, based solely on outdoor
exposure and frequency, will be unreliable
because many variables might have had a
significant impact. The results are surprisingly
similar for all kinds of artifacts in all kinds of
conditions. For example, a ceremonial carriage
might have been used only once every five
years, but it might have spent much of its time
in poor storage conditions, and it might have
been refinished prior to every use. Similarly,
an emergency vehicle might have been used
only on rare occasions, but the usage might
have involved extremely rough handling and
exposure to damaging conditions.
Many large vehicles also traveled great
distances through varying climates and
topography. For example, a train might have
run between Chicago and New Orleans, and an
airplane might have flown regularly between
New York and Copenhagen. These artifacts
would have been exposed to different climates
on a daily basis, and in the case of airplanes, to
varying altitudes and all this entails.
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